title: The patient positioning concept for the planned MedAustron centre.
abstract: Especially for ion therapy, efficiency in form of patient throughput is becoming increasingly important, and here, patient positioning in treatment room isocenter is a key aspect. In order to ascertain high quality nonetheless, we suggest an alternative to the rigidly installed couch paradigm in form of real-time patient positioning onhand a ceiling mounted infrared photogrammetric system giving positioning information to a novel treatment couch with 6 degrees of freedom integrated on a rolling platform. All MedAustron treatment planning rooms and even the planning CT are not forseen to have a rigidly installed treatment couch.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiotherapy-Radiooncology, University Hospital Innsbruck, Anichstr. 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. reinhart.sweeney@uibk.ac.at
authors.forename: Reinhart A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Sweeney
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vogele
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wegmayr
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lukas
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Auberger
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010780:Photogrammetry; D011187:Posture; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed