Proton beam therapy control system
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1. A proton beam therapy device communication system, the system comprising:
- a treatment station, having a plurality of hardware subsystems, that directs a proton beam towards a patient isocenter; and
one or more host applications that monitors and controls operation of the treatment station; and
an agent system connected to each host application using a single client data channel per host application, and further connected to each hardware component using a single data channel per hardware subsystem, wherein the agent system multiplexes operations between the one or more host applications and the plurality of hardware subsystems such that the one or more host applications and one or more of the plurality of hardware subsystems can be selectively removed without reconfiguration of the proton beam therapy device communication system thereby increasing scalability and flexibility of the treatment system, and wherein the agent system maps information from the one or more host applications to one or more proctors configured to monitor operational parameters of the plurality of hardware subsystems.
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Abstract
A tiered communications architecture for managing network traffic in a distributed system. Communication between client or control computers and a plurality of hardware devices is administered by agent and monitor devices whose activities are coordinated to reduce the number of open channels or sockets. The communications architecture also improves the transparency and scalability of the distributed system by reducing network mapping dependence. The architecture is desirably implemented in a proton beam therapy system to provide flexible security policies which improve patent safety and facilitate system maintenance and development.
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1. A proton beam therapy device communication system, the system comprising:
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a treatment station, having a plurality of hardware subsystems, that directs a proton beam towards a patient isocenter; and one or more host applications that monitors and controls operation of the treatment station; and an agent system connected to each host application using a single client data channel per host application, and further connected to each hardware component using a single data channel per hardware subsystem, wherein the agent system multiplexes operations between the one or more host applications and the plurality of hardware subsystems such that the one or more host applications and one or more of the plurality of hardware subsystems can be selectively removed without reconfiguration of the proton beam therapy device communication system thereby increasing scalability and flexibility of the treatment system, and wherein the agent system maps information from the one or more host applications to one or more proctors configured to monitor operational parameters of the plurality of hardware subsystems. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A proton beam therapy device communication system, the system comprising:
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a treatment station, having a plurality of hardware subsystems, that directs a proton beam towards a patient isocenter; and one or more host applications that monitors and controls operation of the treatment station; and one or more proctors that monitors the hardware subsystems, wherein the one or more proctors monitor operational parameters of the hardware subsystems; and an agent system connected to each host application using a single client data channel per host application, and further connected to each hardware component using a single data channel per hardware subsystem, wherein the agent system performs routing operations between the one or more host applications and the plurality of hardware subsystems such that each host application can communicate with each hardware subsystem without specific knowledge of where each hardware subsystem is located in the communication system thereby increasing scalability and flexibility of the treatment system; wherein the agent system maps information from the one ore more host applications to one or more proctors, wherein the mapping determines a network location for each of the hardware subsystems. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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