Eye-Line commissioned at NPTC

["Surajit Sarkar" <sarkar@hadron.mgh.harvard.edu>]

For those that may want to know

 

The 'fixed' beam-line dedicated to treating tumors of the eye, was brought on line April 1, 2002 by a team from MGH and IBA. Eye treatments at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory were stopped a month earlier and some clinical equipment was brought over. As of yesterday all other treatments were stopped at HCL, which has been operational since 1954.

 

The first treatment room, with a gantry and patient positioner system which allows the Proton beam to be directed at the patient from almost any angle has been operational since November 8 2001.

 

NPTC has a 235 MeV Cyclotron, built by IBA, capable delivering beam to: one of two Gantry rooms or to one of three branch lines of the  fixed beamline - of which only the Eye-line is functional at present. Though the idea of using EPICS for the control system was considered at different times, due to various - including IBA business related - considerations the 'Therapy Control System' for NPTC has been built using Talarian's RT Works suite of tools, which was selected for the task ~1994.

 

 

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