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

Med Phys. 2001 Dec;28(12):2518-21. doi: 10.1118/1.1418239.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Biophysical Phenomena
  • Biophysics
  • Equipment Design*
  • Particle Accelerators / instrumentation*
  • Radiotherapy / instrumentation*