Users Manual Part 2

Clinical User’s Guide IBA | 14-3|
Volume 1 - Treatment Session
|Part II - Using Treatment Room Equipment Installing and Removing Accessories into/from the Accessory Drawer or PBS
Preliminary Precautions
Preliminary: Gantry Rolling Floor Precautions
When you are performing functions in the vicinity of the PPS, bear in mind the Gantry
Rolling Floor (GTR) precautions as specified in section “Gantry Rolling Floor
Precautions” on page 4-3.
Accessory Precautions
WARNING In a GTR, be aware of the risks associated with the installation of
removable accessories in a gantry position where the accessory is
suspended above the patient (i.e., gantry angles between 0° and 90°
and between 270° and 360°), particularly when the accessory has a
mass higher than 5 kg.
Use the lower quadrant positions of the gantry to install removable
accessories when the patient is installed on the patient support.
Those removable accessories are:
- blocks and range compensators
- range shifters and ridge filters
- the Dedicated Nozzle snouts XL, M, and S