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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Collision

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Any unintended and potentially harmful contact of a machine with another machine or with a human being. (Touching is not necessarily a collision, because the gap distance between certain axes may ...

Collimator subassembly

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Located in the gantry, consists of X and Y jaws that can move independently along their respective axes to control the field size, and a multileaf collimator (MLC) for beam-shaping.

Rotation of the treatment head to align the beam aperture formed by the collimator jaws with the tumor. Movement of the Collimator Rotation motor causes all collimation items (MLC, Accessories, and ...

Compatibility

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Capability of efficient integration and operation with other elements in a system.

Compact flash disc

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Writable, nonvolatile solid-state storage media with IDE interface. See also flash.

Communications error

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Break down of communications between the C-Series console and the C-Series control system.

Commission

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

(C-Series) 1) To instal and test an accelerator and bring it to an operational condition. 2) To authorise a dynamic wedge angle for clinical use. The range of field sizes authorised for each ...