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Gantry
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Gantry
A name for the couch or table used in a CT scan. The patient lies on the gantry while it slides into the x-ray scanner portion.
Mentioned in: Computed Tomography Scans
Gantry
A device—sometimes huge—for rotating a radiotherapy delivery apparatus around the patient, to treat a cancer from different angles
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According to most companies standard models use ball screw drives for the gantries and high speed raster scan models use a precision belt drive.
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Like the other two gantries, the additional one can accept any available placement head, depending on the job requirements.
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Mr Jones said later there were no "endstops" on the beams which would have prevented the gantry falling off and added that the operating manual for moving gantries was "confusing" and made no mention of the need for endstops.
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