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 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.
Van de Vondel
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Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologic Center, Free University Brussels (AZ-VUB), Belgium. conrvvli@az.vub.ac.be
Coppens
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Verellen
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Linthout
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Van Acker
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Storme
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D000465:Algorithms; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D004867:Equipment Design; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000295:instrumentation*