Open AccessNATIONAL SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE MEDICAL PERSONNEL PROTECTION INTERLOCK
Author(s) -
S BUDA,
N F GMUR,
R LARSON,
W THOMLINSON
Publication year - 1998
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/760975
Subject(s) - beamline , interlock , medical physics , synchrotron , synchrotron light source , modular design , angiography , medicine , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , radiology , optics , physics , storage ring , operating system , beam (structure)
This report is founded on reports written in April 1987 by Robert Hettel for angiography operations at the Stanford Synchrotron Research Laboratory (SSRL) and a subsequent report covering angiography operations at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS); BNL Informal Report 47681, June 1992. The latter report has now been rewritten in order to accurately reflect the design and installation of a new medical safety system at the NSLS X17B2 beamline Synchrotron Medical Research Facility (SMERF). Known originally as the Angiography Personnel Protection Interlock (APPI), this system has been modified to incorporate other medical imaging research programs on the same beamline and thus the name has been changed to the more generic Medical Personnel Protection Interlock (MPPI). This report will deal almost exclusively with the human imaging (angiography, bronchography, mammography) aspects of the safety system, but will briefly explain the modular aspects of the system allowing other medical experiments to be incorporated