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Safety Notice for Digital Accelerators with Electrons and Beam Modulator, MLCi/MLCi2, Agility or Asymmetric Heads, Elekta

Product group Radiotherapy / Radiation protection - radiation facilites with accelerators for teletherapy
Reference 03400/13, 03406/13

Elekta has issued a Field Safety Notice concerning a problem with all Digital Accelerators with Electrons and Beam Modulator, MLCi/MLCi2, Agility or Asymmetric Heads. Some Digital Accelerators have increased electron applicator auto-tracking settings in the field, to values greater than the factory-set defaults.

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