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Remote control for a stand‐alone freely movable treatment couch with limitation system
Author(s) -
Van de Vondel Iwein,
Coppens Luc,
Verellen Dirk,
Linthout Nadine,
Van Acker Swana,
Storme Guy
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.1418239
Subject(s) - table (database) , computer science , linear particle accelerator , remote control , control system , control (management) , set (abstract data type) , simulation , computer hardware , artificial intelligence , engineering , electrical engineering , database , programming language , beam (structure) , civil engineering
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.