title: Remote control for a stand-alone freely movable treatment couch with limitation system.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologic Center, Free University Brussels (AZ-VUB), Belgium. conrvvli@az.vub.ac.be
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Van de Vondel
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Coppens
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Verellen
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Linthout
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van Acker
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Storme
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D004867:Equipment Design; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000295:instrumentation*