Quality assurance system and method
AssigneeUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation
InventorsJanelle A. Molloy, Allison Palmiero, Justin Visak
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Abstract
A quality assurance system for a medical accelerator includes a housing, an image plate supported by the housing and an image capture assembly. The image plate is adapted to display a visible light field image and a radiation field generated by the medical accelerator. The image capture assembly is adapted to capture the visible light field image and the radiation field displayed by the image plate.
Claims18
A quality assurance system adapted for viewing a visible light field and a radiation field generated by a medical accelerator, comprising:
- a housing;
- an image plate supported by the housing wherein the image plate is adapted to display a visible light field image and a radiation field generated by the medical accelerator;
- and
- an image capture assembly adapted to capture the visible light field image and the radiation field displayed by the image plate wherein the housing further includes a removable lid that is displaceable between a radiation field image gathering position covering the image plate and a visible light field image gathering position exposing the image plate.
A quality assurance system for a medical accelerator adapted to generate a visible light field and a radiation field, comprising:
- a housing;
- an image plate supported by the housing;
- and
- an image capture assembly wherein the housing further includes a removable lid that is displaceable between a radiation field image gathering position covering the image plate and a visible light field image gathering position exposing the image plate.
A method of assuring proper performance of a medical accelerator adapted to generate a visible light field and a radiation field, comprising:
- positioning a housing and an image plate of a quality assurance system in proper position on a couch of a medical accelerator by aligning alignment markings of the quality assurance system with alignment lasers of the medical accelerator;
- displaying on the image plate a visible light field image and a radiation field image generated by the medical accelerator;
- capturing the visible light field image and the radiation field image displayed by the image plate;
- transmitting the visible light field image generated by the medical accelerator through the image plate;
- converting the radiation field generated by the medical accelerator into a corresponding visible light image reproduction of the radiation field generated by the medical accelerator;
- and
- displacing a lid of the quality assurance system between a radiation field image gathering position covering the image plate and a visible light field image gathering position exposing the image plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.