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Downtime experience for clinical linear accelerators
Author(s) -
Bjärngard B. E.,
McEwen D. A.
Publication year - 1974
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 - 10.1118/1.1637284
Subject(s) - downtime , linear particle accelerator , medicine , preventive maintenance , radiation therapy , medical physics , operations management , reliability engineering , surgery , engineering , beam (structure) , civil engineering
The downtime for four linear accelerators in clinical radiation therapy has been studied for about four years. The time lost during patient treatment hours is on the average 3% with an in‐house technical service group, which invests approximately 1000 man‐hours per machine and year in preventive maintenance and repair. The time lost decreases significantly with time after installation.