Safety Notice concerning a problem with the digital linear accelerators of type ARTISTE™ and ONCOR™ equipped with 160 MLC™, Siemens Healthcare
2011.05.10
Product group Radiotherapy / Radiation protection
Reference 01938/11
Siemens Healthcare has issued a field safety notice concerning a problem with the digital linear accelerators of type ARTISTE™ and ONCOR™ equipped with 160 MLC™. An issue has been reported, where the actual field shape of the MLC deviated from the originally prescribed field shape after operating the `Motion Stop` button followed by `reset`on the Control console several times within one beam.