Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Leo Most cancers Care, in collaboration with DCA Design Worldwide, has pioneered an modern method to radiotherapy as that is acknowledged as a elementary element of most cancers therapy, conventional radiotherapy usually requires sufferers to lie on a inflexible desk.
As an alternative, they create they created a system the place the affected person sits upright, which is a therapy posture that’s related to important medical, emotional, monetary, and operational advantages.
This pioneering mission has been awarded a 2023 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Structure and Design and The European Centre for Structure Artwork Design and City Research.
Named after Ruby Payne-Scott, a pioneer in radiophysics, the Ruby system is a whole upright most cancers therapy answer: a real-time, image-guided, photon radiotherapy system.
Integrating Leo Most cancers Care’s upright affected person positioning system, Ruby has been designed to enhance the effectiveness, and the affected person expertise, of radiotherapy, making it an thrilling a part of the following technology of most cancers care.
One of many main benefits of Ruby is its considerably diminished footprint (in comparison with conventional linacs). By rotating the affected person to an upright place, and fixing the therapy beam, there isn’t any want for a big rotating gantry.
In lots of instances, a number of Ruby programs will be put in within the house that will have been required for a single linac.
The system will be put in in current therapy bunkers, or equipped totally shielded, making pricey, giant concrete bunkers a factor of the previous.
Ruby’s visible design focuses on minimizing the dimensions and visible presence of the complicated system, which features a linear accelerator and cone beam CT imaging to help correct therapy supply.
This was rigorously balanced with prioritizing easy accessibility, for each therapist and affected person, partly achieved by way of modern association of imaging tools, whereas concurrently offering a snug and acquainted aesthetic.
This design adopts pure, quietly assured types, carrying an intrinsic logic. The affected person going through surfaces softly curve, which, mixed with refined lighting and textiles, provide reassurance by way of a homely familiarity.
All these points are embodied with consciousness of the healthcare atmosphere by which they’re being put in.
Most cancers therapy is usually extremely emotional. Ruby allows extra significant engagement with sufferers.
Quicker, less complicated setups, mixed with the flexibility to be put in in present and new construct services (with a a lot decrease shielding requirement), means lifesaving remedies will be extra inexpensive, and extra accessible, with a decrease environmental impression than conventional gantry-based remedies; finally enhancing the way forward for healthcare and sufferers’ lives.
Venture: Upright Photon Radiotherapy Remedy Tystem – Ruby
Designers: DCA Design Worldwide Restricted
Lead Designers: Malcolm Boyd, Maartje Pel, RP Kruizinga, Marina Baranova, Daniel Jenkins, and Josh Teodoro
Producer: Leo Most cancers Care Ltd.
