454 results about "Treatment room" patented technology

The present invention is related to a method and a system for automatically allocating a particle beam to one of a plurality of treatment rooms. Upon receiving a request from one of the beam users, the system checks whether the beam is available and may automatically allocate the beam to the requesting room. Otherwise, the request may be put on a waiting list of pending requests, in a position which depends on the priority level (and arrival lime) coupled to said request.

The present invention relates to a rotating patient chair mounted with an integrated ear diagnosis and treatment unit that controls the position of a microscope 48 and a monitor 50 rotating around the rotating patient chair 30 at a predetermined angle or 180 degrees, the unit including: suctioners 44, 52, a treatment board 46, a blood pressure tester 54 and a manipulating switch box 40 for controlling the diagnosis and treatment tools, and the monitor 50 and the microscope 48 positioned in correspondence with the patient's ears anatomically positioned at 180 degrees to enable the patient to observe all of the treatment processes to the ear parts including the thin, dark auditory canals and eardrums on the monitor 50 installed at an opposite side and to enable the practitioner to explain all of the treatment processes shown on the monitor to the patient and his guardians, thereby improving reliability on the practitioner and the treatment processes and maximizing the treatment effects, and performing diagnosis and treatment processes to the patient's ears by not letting the practitioner or patient move around but merely by rotating the ear diagnosis and treatment unit, minimizing discomfort and inconvenience to the practitioner or patient, shortening the medical treatment time and minimizing the space of a treatment room occupied by the diagnosis and treatment unit.

A particle therapy system capable of increasing the number of patients treated in one treatment room per unit time. The particle therapy system comprises a charged particle beam generator for generating an ion beam, an irradiation apparatus for irradiating the ion beam extracted from the charged particle beam generator to an irradiation target, a beam transport system for transporting the ion beam extracted from the charged particle beam generator to the irradiation apparatus, and a central control unit for producing a set of command data to command excitation currents for magnets disposed in the charged particle beam generator and the beam transport system, the set of command data being classified into group-1 data and group-2 data.

A computer controlled robot system for positioning a patient for radiation therapy or other medical procedures and the like. The robot is mounted at the top of a vertical shaft extending from the treatment room floor and includes horizontal arms arranged to maximize the available work envelope and eliminate “dead spots” in the envelope that the robot cannot reach. A double redundant coupling system for coupling devices to the robot is provided. A vision based docking system is employed for automatically coupling devices to the robot. Various enhanced safety features are provided, including device specific collision avoidance.

A structure that can be partially assembled at one location, transported to a site in modules, and then fully assembled into a structure suitable for housing a therapeutic radiation source is disclosed. The modules include reinforced walls that are filled with radiation shielding fill material to form a barrier around a central treatment area. Additional modules are placed over the first set of modules and form a barrier above the treatment room. A door with a selectively retractable threshold provides access to the treatment room. The module including the radiation equipment is included in removable portions so that the radiation equipment can be removed and replaced. The modules also form a patient waiting room and control area separated from the treatment by the barrier.

A movable floor system for use with a rotating gantry in a radiation treatment facility is provided that comprises a carriage assembly slidably supported within the gantry to maintain a substantially constant orientation while the gantry is rotating. An extendable / retractable panel assembly is supported on the carriage assembly that includes a plurality of non-movable floor panels and a like plurality of movable floor panels slidably mounted over corresponding ones of the non-movable panels. The movable panels are sized to span a distance between the carriage assembly and a fixed floor of the treatment room. Each of the movable panels has a platform surface for supporting a person for access to and from the patient table situated within the gantry. A control system coordinates the extension and retraction of the movable floor panels to prevent collisions with the radiation nozzle as it rotates during the patient treatment.

The invention relates to an intelligent control method of visual monitoring and visual servo of tumor radiation therapy. The method comprises: (1) according to multi-mode medical images and multi-vision optical images collected by a radiation-oncology-plan-stage simulation and positioning medical imaging system, a radiation-oncology-positioning-stage treatment room internal optical imaging system, and a radiation-oncology-plan-execution-stage onboard medical imaging system and the like, intelligent analysis processing is carried out to monitor, identify and localize a tumor radiotherapy target and an organ at risk, radiotherapy beds with patients, radiotherapy equipment, and the auxiliary treatment staff and objects in a treatment room during the whole radiotherapy process; and (2), on the basis of optical images and / or medical images collected at different stages of the tumor radiotherapy process as well as the quality guaranteeing requirement of the clinical radiotherapy process, a multi-stage multi-vision servo intelligent control system (algorithm) is used for carrying out intelligent, automatic, high-precision, high-robust visual servo control on the radiotherapy beds, radiotherapy equipment, the onboard medical image system, and the optical imaging system in the treatment room during the tumor radiotherapy process.

A computer controlled robot system for positioning a patient for radiation therapy or other medical procedures and the like. The robot is mounted at the top of a vertical shaft extending from the treatment room floor and includes horizontal arms arranged to maximize the available work envelope and eliminate “dead spots” in the envelope that the robot cannot reach. A double redundant coupling system for coupling devices to the robot is provided. A vision based docking system is employed for automatically coupling devices to the robot. Various enhanced safety features are provided, including device specific collision avoidance.

Apparatus and method for performing interstitial laser therapy and adjunctive therapy on a patient are revealed. The apparatus employs a combination of a mammography unit, an interstitial laser treatment device attached to the mammography unit and a treatment platform positioned relative to the mammography unit to enable the interstitial laser therapy to be performed. The use of the treatment platform with the mammography unit enables the interstitial laser therapy to be performed and, if necessary, adjunctive therapy to be performed in the same treatment room without transferring the patient to a new platform.

Apparatus for radiation therapy combines a patient table, an MRI and a radiation treatment apparatus mounted in a common treatment room with the MR magnet movable through a radiation shielded door to an imaging position. An initial MR image and an initial X-ray image is used to generate an RT program for the patient to be carried out in a plurality of separate treatment steps. Before carrying out the procedure, a registration step is performed using a phantom by which X-ray images are registered relative to MR images to generate a transformation algorithm required to align the MR images of the part of the patient relative to the X-ray images. Prior to each separate treatment step a current MR image of the part of the patient is obtained and the transformation algorithm data is used from the current MR image is used in guiding the RT treatment step.

The invention discloses a proton therapy system based on a compact superconducting cyclotron. The proton therapy system includes a superconducting cyclotron system, an energy selection system and a beam transportation system, a fixed treatment room subsystem and a rotary frame treatment subsystem; the fixed energy proton beam led out by the superconducting cyclotron in the superconducting cyclotron system can be a continuously adjusting proton beam of 70-200MeV via the energy selection system, so that the longitudinal adjustment of the range during the proton therapy of tumors can be met; thebeam is transmitted to the fixed treatment room subsystem and the rotary frame treatment subsystem via the beam transportation system; the superconducting cyclotron system, the energy selection system, the beam transportation system and a treatment head are subjected to cooperative control to realize the transverse expansion of the proton beam, so that the intensity modulation treatment of the tumor can be completed. According to the invention, the innovation is good, the practicability is high, the beam intensity of the superconducting cyclotron is adjustable, and the intensity modulation treatment can be realized; and the system has an extremely important promotion effect on the accuracy, effectiveness and high efficiency of tumor treatment of a patient.

A method and a device of laser impact and thermal spraying composite coating preparation relates to the nontraditional machining field. At first, the invention uses a thermal spraying device to spay powder onto the surface of a metal substrate in order to form a coating. The invention is characterized in that laser is used to impact the metal substrate surface coated with the coating and the coating which has low porosity, high bonding strength and compression stress is formed. The device implementing the method comprises a computer control device, a thermal spraying system I, a laser impact system II, a sealed treatment room, a clamping device, a five-axis workbench and a vacuum pump, which are connected in turn. The thermal spraying system I comprises the thermal spraying device and sprayed powder. The laser impact system II comprises a nanosecond laser generator, laser beam, a light pipe, a 45 degrees totally reflective mirror, a facula adjusting device, a K9 glass window and an automatic spraying system. The invention can form the coating on the surface of the metal, increase the porosity of the coating, improve the bonding strength of the coating and the substrate and change the state of residual stress.

Systems and apparatuses for providing particle beams for radiation therapy with a compact design and suitable to a single treatment room. The radiation system comprises a stationary cyclotron coupled to a rotating gantry assembly through a beam line assembly. The system is equipped with a single set of dipole magnets that are installed on the rotating gantry assembly and undertakes the dual functions of beam energy selection and beam deflection. The energy degrader may be exposed to the air pressure. The beam line assembly comprises a rotating segment and a stationary segment that are separated from each other through an intermediate segment that is exposed to an ambient pressure.

A movable floor system for use with a rotating gantry in a radiation treatment facility is provided that comprises a carriage assembly slidably supported within the gantry to maintain a substantially constant orientation while the gantry is rotating. An extendable / retractable panel assembly is supported on the carriage assembly that includes a plurality of non-movable floor panels and a like plurality of movable floor panels slidably mounted over corresponding ones of the non-movable panels. The movable panels are sized to span a distance between the carriage assembly and a fixed floor of the treatment room. Each of the movable panels has a platform surface for supporting a person for access to and from the patient table situated within the gantry. A control system coordinates the extension and retraction of the movable floor panels to prevent collisions with the radiation nozzle as it rotates during the patient treatment.

Systems and apparatuses for providing particle beams for radiation therapy with a compact design and suitable to a single treatment room. The radiation system comprises a stationary cyclotron coupled to a rotating gantry assembly through a beam line assembly. The system is equipped with a single set of dipole magnets that are installed on the rotating gantry assembly and undertakes the dual functions of beam energy selection and beam deflection. The energy degrader may be exposed to the air pressure. The beam line assembly comprises a rotating segment and a stationary segment that are separated from each other through an intermediate segment that is exposed to an ambient pressure.

Apparatus and method for performing interstitial laser therapy and adjunctive therapy on a patient are revealed. The apparatus employs a combination of a mammography unit, an interstitial laser treatment device attached to the mammography unit and a treatment platform positioned relative to the mammography unit to enable the interstitial laser therapy to be performed. The use of the treatment platform with the mammography unit enables the interstitial laser therapy to be performed and, if necessary, adjunctive therapy to be performed in the same treatment room without transferring the patient to a new platform.

A method and apparatus are provided for verification of the identity of a patient undergoing treatment administered by a medical treatment practitioner in a treatment room. An identifying element such as patient chart or patient photograph is provided for the patient which includes a patient identifier, e.g., a barcode, capable of being read by a reader device located within the treatment room. In use, the patient identifier is read by the reader device in the treatment room and a characteristic audio signal, previously assigned to the patient and known to the patient, is generated in response to the reading of the identifying element when there is a match between the patient identifier and a stored identifier for the patient. Treatment of the patient is at least temporarily withheld if any audio signal generated in response to reading of the patient identifier by the reader device is not the characteristic audio signal assigned to the patient. A special patient chart with a removable identifier can be used. A billing method which may involve the scanning step is also provided.

The invention relates to a proton treatment system based on a cyclotron, which includes a proton cyclotron (1) and a main proton beam transport system (2) for conveying protons in the proton cyclotron. The main proton beam transport system (2) respectively conveys the protons with required energy to three treatment rooms with different paths through a switch magnet (6). The three treatment rooms with different paths include a rotary frame treatment room (3), a horizontal beam-vertical beam double-fixing-beam treatment room (4) and a horizontal beam-incline beam double-fixing-beam treatment room (5), wherein the horizontal beam-vertical beam double-fixing-beam treatment room (4) and the horizontal beam-incline beam double-fixing-beam treatment room (5) are arranged at both sides of the rotary frame treatment room (3). The occupation space of a proton treatment device is reduced and the construction cost of a proton treatment apparatus is lowered by employing the proton treatment system. The proton treatment system based on the cyclotron has the compact structure and guarantees the treatment effect.

The invention belongs to the technical field of nuclear waste treatment, and particularly relates to a system of simulating characteristics of a high-level waste geology treatment room, which aims to provide the system capable of simulating the heat-water-power-chemistry coupling characteristic of the high-level waste deep geology treatment room. The system comprises a water supplying and gas-supplying device (1), a temperature control device (8), a multi-field coupling experience device, a measuring system, a data collecting system (10) and a data processing system (19). The system uses the multi-field coupling experience device as a core, the outermost layer of the system is a barrel-like stainless cavity body (4) with a sealing cover, and the innermost layer of the system is a cylindrical shape for simulating a heater (3) of the high-level waste. The invention provides a bentonite heat-water-power-chemistry coupling experience device under the condition of the multi-field coupling, has the characteristics of high strength, small deformation, corrosion resistance, good sealing property, high measuring precision and the like, and is suitable for a mock-up long experience of the bentonite under the condition of a simulated treatment room.

There are provided with a respiration induction apparatus that induces respiration, based on a desired respiration waveform; a switching device that switches the orbit of a particle beam; and an irradiation apparatus that controls irradiation, in synchronization with the desired respiration waveform. A controller, which performs synchronization control of the switching device and the respiration induction apparatuses in a plurality of treatment rooms, adjusts the periods and the phases of the desired respiration waveforms of the respiration induction apparatuses in the treatment rooms so that the irradiation times synchronized with the desired respiration waveforms in the treatment rooms do not overlap with one another, and controls the switching device so as to switch the orbits of the particle beam, in accordance with the respective irradiation times of the treatment rooms.

An imaging positioning system having a robotically positioned support structure is provided. By utilizing a robotic arm, imaging along multiple planes within a patient treatment room without having to move the patient is provided. Such a configuration allows multiple axis x-ray imaging, cone beam CT acquisitions having a dynamic field of view, and PET imaging within the treatment room. Rotation of the imaging panel on the support structure allows the imaging system to simulate a gantry rotation when a fixed beam is used for treatment. Beam line x-ray imaging is also provided by tilting the imaging panel or by moving the support structure on which the x-ray source is positioned. Laser distance scanning for collision avoidance and force torque sensing movement enhance the safety thereof. The support structure may be in the form of a ring along which the imaging components may move.

The invention relates to a treatment room for a particle therapy system that has a treatment room isocenter, which can be set variably during treatment and forms an origin of a coordinate system, and a patient positioning apparatus for automatically positioning the patient with reference to the set treatment room isocenter.

The invention discloses an intelligent joint protection control system for a medicinal linear accelerator. The central thought is that: an auxiliary joint protection system is established and is used for monitoring water temperature and hydraulic pressure in a water cooling system of the medicinal linear accelerator, air pressure in a filled waveguide system, current of a titanium pump power supply, and faults of a switch on a shielding lead door for a treatment room and each subsystem, and determining corresponding operation according to the fault types so as to conveniently realize patient protection interlocking, machine interlocking and faulty operation interlocking.

The present invention refers to a radiation system (1) comprising an excentric gantry (100) arranged in connection with multiple treatment rooms (61-68) separated by radiation-shielding separating members (71-78). A movable rotation head (120) is connected to the gantry (100) and is able to move between, and direct a radiation beam (110) into, the treatment rooms (61-68). A simulator head (200-1 to 200-8) is preferably arranged together with the radiation system so it can be used in each respective treatment room (61-68). In such a case, while a first subject (40-1) is being irradiated in a first room (61), a treatment set-up procedure, including correct positioning of subjects (40-2 to 40-8) and irradiation simulation, can simultaneously take place for the other subjects (40-2 to 40-8) in the other treatment rooms (62 to 68).

The invention discloses an automatic spraying production line for automatic lamp anti-fogging paint. A constant-temperature and constant-humidity feeding room, a constant-temperature and constant-humidity carrying room, an automatic spraying room, a subsequent spraying treatment room and a constant-temperature and constant-humidity discharging room which are separated through middle partition plates are arranged in a spraying room of the automatic spraying production line. The constant-temperature and constant-humidity feeding room is internally provided with a feeding belt conveying belt and a manual dust removing table. The constant-temperature and constant-humidity feeding room is internally provided with a carrying robot and an automatic electrostatic precipitation cabinet. A robot installation frame in the automatic spraying room is provided with an automatic spraying robot in an erected manner. A movable rotary table is arranged between the constant-temperature and constant-humidity carrying room and the automatic spraying room. The subsequent spraying treatment room is internally provided with a chain plate conveying belt. The subsequent spraying treatment room is provided with a leveling section, an oven drying section and a cooling section. A checking table and a discharging belt conveying belt are arranged in the constant-temperature and constant-humidity discharging room. According to the automatic spraying production line, the spraying processing work for the automatic lamp anti-fogging paint can be efficiently finished, and the automatic spraying production line has the beneficial effects of being novel in structural design, reasonable in layout, high in automation degree, high in working efficiency and capable of saving labor cost.

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for directing positively charged particles, comprising the steps of: (1) directing the positively charged particles along a beamline; (2) rotating a cantilevered rotatable gantry arm, both connected to a rotatable gantry support and supporting the beamline, about a horizontal rotation axis of the rotatable gantry support; and (3) countering torque, of at least the cantilevered rotatable gantry arm, about the rotation axis using a counterweight connected to the rotatable gantry support. Optionally, the gantry movement is used as part of rotating the rotatable gantry arm three hundred sixty degrees around an inner gantry arm side motion defined volume, which allows access to one side of a treatment room and the gantry arc swept volume, such as for entrance, mounting a patient positioning system, and / or for a ground based support structure.

Apparatus for radiation therapy combines a patient table, an MRI and a radiation treatment apparatus mounted in a common treatment room with the MR magnet movable from a position outside a radiation shielded door to an imaging position. An RF-shielded door is movable between a position, separating part of the treatment apparatus from the magnet and an open position allowing access of the patient to the treatment apparatus. In one configuration there is a row of treatment rooms and the magnet is mounted to move along a passageway outside the row of radiation shielded doors of the rooms.

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for treating a tumor, comprising the steps of: (1) a main controller implementing an initial radiation treatment plan, as a current radiation treatment plan, using positively charged particles delivered from a synchrotron, along a beam transport line, through a nozzle system proximate the treatment room, and into the tumor; (2) concurrent with the step of implementing, imaging the tumor, such as with protons, to generate a current image; (3) upon detection of movement of the tumor relative to surrounding constituents of the patient using the current image, the main controller, using computer implemented code, automatically generating an updated treatment plan, the updated treatment plan becoming the current radiation treatment plan; and (4) repeating the steps of implementing, imaging, and generating an updated treatment plan at least n times, where n is a positive integer of at least one.

A radiation protection system for shielding medical personnel from a gamma ray source being used to provide brachytherapy to a patient is provided by disposing shielding material between the source of radiation and locations outside the radiation protection system in such a manner as to provide shielding for the primary radiation in directions from which radiation from the source may emerge, while providing the patient an open viewing area with a large field of view for the patient to view the locations outside the radiation protection system. The described system reduces the radiation exposure of staff in the treatment room, thereby permitting physicians and therapists to observe the patient without being exposed to excessive amounts of radiation. The opening in the radiation protection system around the head of the patient provides the ability for the patient to see his surroundings and to eliminate the anxiety resulting from the feeling of being closed in.