Users Manual Part 1

IBA | xxx | Clinical User’s Guide
Volume 1 - Treatment Session
Cautions ........................................................................... lxxii
Important Notes ............................................................... lxxii
Typographic Conventions .................................................lxxiii
Illustrations .......................................................................lxxiii
Troubleshooting Information ............................................lxxiii
Visual Cues .......................................................................lxxiii
Chapter 1
Introduction
Overview ............................................................................... 1-1
Treatment Modes Available at the PT Center ................... 1-2
Therapy Center and Proton Therapy System
Building Blocks ...................................................................... 1-2
Treatment Planning System (TPS) ..................................... 1-2
Oncology Information System (OIS) .................................. 1-3
Proton Therapy System (PTS) Software ............................ 1-5
Usage With an OIS ........................................................ 1-5
Usage Without an OIS .................................................. 1-5
Patient Positioning Verification System (PPVS) ................. 1-5
PPVS Process ................................................................ 1-5
Treatment Workflow Options ................................................ 1-7
Workflow Option Criteria .............................................. 1-7
Workflow Options ......................................................... 1-8
Treatment Mode Aspects ............................................. 1-9
Frequency Aspect ....................................................... 1-10
Reading Sequence of This Manual .............................. 1-11
Option A: Using the Batch Importer and
Standalone Delivery ......................................................... 1-11
Option B: Full Standalone Mode ..................................... 1-12
Option C: Using the OIS .................................................. 1-12
Patient Related Parameters ................................................. 1-12
Prescribed Parameters ........................................................ 1-12
Received versus Delivered Parameters ............................... 1-13
Operating adaPTdeliver in Clinical Mode or in
Physics Mode ...................................................................... 1-13
Using Information From the OIS ..................................... 1-14
Using QA Features of adaPTprescribe ................................ 1-15
Chapter 2
Starting Up Applications in the adaPT Treatment Suite
Startup Operations ................................................................ 2-1
Clinical and Non-clinical Environment .................................... 2-1