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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Elekta Ab (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Inventors:
Paul Berwick, Crawley, GB;
Christopher Knox, East Grinstead, GB;
Assignee:
Elekta AB (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/10 (2006.01); A61B 6/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a radiotherapy system, comprising: receiving a treatment plan to be carried out using the radiotherapy system; detecting if there is a fault in a component of the radiotherapy system; determining whether the component is needed for delivery of the treatment plan; and if the component is not needed for delivery of the treatment plan, allowing the radiotherapy system to execute the treatment plan.