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A multiportal compensator system for IMRT delivery. 2003

Kiyoshi Yoda, and Yukimasa Aoki

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Advanced Technology R&D Center, 8-1-1 Tsukaguchi Hommachi, Amagasaki 661-8661, Japan.

We have developed a multiportal compensator system for IMRT delivery, comprising a rotational compensator mount for a linac head, cylindrical compensator enclosures positioned in the mount, a vacuum-formed thermoplastic sheet with heavy alloy granules inside the enclosure, and a vacuum thermoforming device. The mount rotates like a revolver by a stepping motor, thus allowing automatic multiportal IMRT without exchanging compensators by human operators during treatment. The thermoforming device has servo-motor-driven 10 x 10 metal rod elements to actualize an arbitrary intensity profile. The thermoplastic sheet is preheated by a built-in biplanar heater and then it is placed over the rod elements. Subsequently, vacuum forming is performed through corner cutouts of the rod elements. After forced cooling down, the heavy alloy granules are fed into the formed sheet. Preliminary experiment using solid water phantoms and an x-ray film has shown that the intensity profile on the film agrees reasonably well with the desired profile.

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D004867	Equipment Design	Methods and patterns of fabricating machines and related hardware.	Design, Equipment,Device Design,Medical Device Design,Design, Medical Device,Designs, Medical Device,Device Design, Medical,Device Designs, Medical,Medical Device Designs,Design, Device,Designs, Device,Designs, Equipment,Device Designs,Equipment Designs
D019544	Equipment Failure Analysis	The evaluation of incidents involving the loss of function of a device. These evaluations are used for a variety of purposes such as to determine the failure rates, the causes of failures, costs of failures, and the reliability and maintainability of devices.	Materials Failure Analysis,Prosthesis Failure Analysis,Analysis, Equipment Failure,Analysis, Materials Failure,Analysis, Prosthesis Failure,Analyses, Equipment Failure,Analyses, Materials Failure,Analyses, Prosthesis Failure,Equipment Failure Analyses,Failure Analyses, Equipment,Failure Analyses, Materials,Failure Analyses, Prosthesis,Failure Analysis, Equipment,Failure Analysis, Materials,Failure Analysis, Prosthesis,Materials Failure Analyses,Prosthesis Failure Analyses
D020266	Radiotherapy, Conformal	A therapy using IONIZING RADIATION where there is improved dose homogeneity within the tumor and reduced dosage to uninvolved structures. The precise shaping of dose distribution is achieved via the use of computer-controlled multileaf collimators.	Conformal Radiotherapy,3-D Conformal Radiotherapy,Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy,3-D Conformal Radiotherapies,Conformal Radiotherapies,Conformal Radiotherapies, 3-D,Conformal Radiotherapies, Three-Dimensional,Conformal Radiotherapy, 3-D,Conformal Radiotherapy, Three-Dimensional,Radiotherapies, 3-D Conformal,Radiotherapies, Conformal,Radiotherapies, Three-Dimensional Conformal,Radiotherapy, 3-D Conformal,Radiotherapy, Three-Dimensional Conformal,Three Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy,Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapies

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