Control platform for radiotherapy services

Abstract

In this study, we present a control platform used for radiotherapy services. Cancer treatment field concerns also Chemotherapy, Surgery and Other medical means but it didn't constitute the object of this survey. The Cancer is an enormous and growing global public health problem. The majority of cancers are treated in radiotherapy (or radiation oncology) services. The strategies for treatment management and terminal cure must be established in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach for a total cancer care program. The system used for this work in a radiotherapy service consists of a set of 5 personnel computers (PC's), one PC server, 3 linear accelerators (VARIAN model) and 2 scanner simulators (VARIAN and General Electric) located in five cure rooms. Currently, the problem of the quality services and the accidents in radiotherapy services in the world is not solved. This system is used in order to improve the quality services and to increase the medical care. Its main purpose is to avoid mistake's treatment which could kill patients. Accidents occur till now even in developed countries (USA, France, England, etc). This project is in its first step. Some results are obtained and described in this study. The PC's are put in a network and three of them are used to control the check-list of the apparatus (linear accelerators). One special PC (the server) is used as a data server in order to store all data of the system like the check-list of the devices, the temperature and the moisture data and the physicians and patients' management.