Remote control for a stand-alone freely movable treatment couch with limitation system

One of our linear accelerators is equipped with a free-movable treatment couch. An additional projects was to develop a system that first protects the free-movable couch against collisions, secondly build a remote control for moving the couch from outside the treatment room and finally implement thi...

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Published inMedical physics (Lancaster) Vol. 28; no. 12; p. 2518
Main Authors Van de Vondel, I, Coppens, L, Verellen, D, Linthout, N, Van Acker, S, Storme, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.2001
Subjects
Algorithms
Biophysical Phenomena
Biophysics
Equipment Design
Particle Accelerators - instrumentation
Radiotherapy - instrumentation
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Summary:One of our linear accelerators is equipped with a free-movable treatment couch. An additional projects was to develop a system that first protects the free-movable couch against collisions, secondly build a remote control for moving the couch from outside the treatment room and finally implement this remote control/limitation system in an automatic position algorithm using an electronic portal image. The latter has been the subject of an on-going departmental investigation on intra-fractional correction of set-up errors. A few years ago, we developed a limitation system to protect both the table and the accelerator against collisions. In this paper we describe the second part of this project, the remote control system.
ISSN:0094-2405
DOI:10.1118/1.1418239