Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment is used in the medical profession for the purpose of creating images that expose internal parts of the body.

Industry: Medical devices

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failure

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The need for an operator to work on a system to repair a failed component. Compare with assist.

mlc

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Multileaf collimator = collimator consting of movable tungsten plates arranged side by side. The thickness at isocenter varies from 2. 5 to 10mm depending on the type os MLC.

plan status information

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Plan item that contains the plan status.

The process by which a beam of radiation is reduced in intensity when passing through matter. It is the combination of absorption and scattering processes and leads to a decrease in flux density of ...

mlc physical position; logical position

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Geometrical projection of the center or tip, or both, of the leaf onto the isoplane; light or X-ray leaf projection onto the isoplane.

planning target volume

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

(PTV) defines a volume consisting of the actual tumour tissue (GTV), the Clinical Target Volume (CTV), the Internal Target Volume (ITV) plus an additional margin. The dose can be prescibed to this ...