Vac Fix Fixation System
The original reusable patient fixation system
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Features:
 | Reusable
| Precise
| Comfortable
| Non-toxic
| Fast and easy to use
| Maintains shape throughout the 6 week treatment period
| Custom shapes and sizes available!
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The Vac Fix System has been developed through an international cooperation between radiation therapy centres, engineers, and designers to create a fixation system which meets the demands required in modern computerized radiation therapy.
The Vac-Fix bag consists of an airtight bag filled with small polystyrene spheres. The Vac Fix bags are almost air-equivalent and only increase the build up effect by a few percent.
The vacuum-based Vac-Fix System is fast and comfortable to work with and consists of only a few components. The reusability of the cushions combined with the fast and clean fixation gives your department the best cost-benefit ratio.
| Does not require mold rooms with special ventilation
| No extra visits required for fixation only
| Correction of positioning during simulation or treatment can be made in a
few minutes
| Patients feel more comfortable with the Vac Fix System than with any other
positioning system in clinical use
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Maximum accuracy
Radiotherapy treatment is moving towards an increased use of multi-fractioned, multi-field and rotational treatment based on sophisticated computer technology. This demands a maximum fixation accuracy.
Tests made at several oncology centres have shown that with only a few weeks of practice, the same accuracy in day-to-day reproducibility of positioning can be obtained using the Vac Fix System as with the older, more complicated and labor intensive forms of patient fixation. A standard deviation of the centre cross of 1.5mm was achieved.
Steps to perfect fixation in less than 5 minutes!
| Patient placed on air-filled cushion
| Cushion attached to vacuum for a few seconds
| Cushion molded to desired shape, giving the patient the best fixation and
points of support
| The cushion is fully evacuated, providing a rigid, perfectly shaped
cushion in just a matter of minutes.
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Download VacFix literature (a 287K Adobe Acrobat file)
Download examples of fixation with VacFix (a 567K Adobe
Acrobat file)
European Headquarters:
PAR Scientific A/S
Sivlandvænget 11B
DK-5260 Odense S
Denmark
Telephone: +45 63 12 90 00
Fax: +45 63 12 90 01