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Table of Contents
Sec 1: Introduction ....................1-1
Sec 2: Gantry Calibration ..........2-1
Sec 3: Reserved
Sec 4: AC/DC Power .................4-1
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Milpitas, CA 95035
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This manual describes the Single Head Genesys gamma camera with an Epic
Detector, and either an Atlas or a Pegasys Image Acquisition system.
SECTION 1
INTRODUCTION
Scope General Description
This manual is part of a field service kit de- An Epic Single H ead Genesys camera con-
scribing ADAC’s Epic Single H ead Genesys sists of:
gamma camera. The Epic Single H ead Gene-
sys camera can interface to either: • a gantry for supporting and moving a
gamma radiation detector in circular,
• a Pegasys Image Acquisition/Processing radial and longitudinal directions (Figure
system (pre 1997), or 1-1),
• or an Atlas Image Acquisition Control • two end stands which support a patient
system (post 1997). table which will move in a vertical
direction,
This manual describes the interface to both
and Pegasys and the Atlas. In addition, this • a collimator exchanger,
manual covers:
• a Display Panel mounted on the left gantry
• an overview (Section 1), ring which contains gantry position
readouts, and push buttons for controlling
• procedures for calibrating gantry motions gantry/detector actions,
(Section 2),
• a H andcontroller which allows the
• AC/DC power distribution, emergency operator to manually move the gantry,
stop and collision detection systems detector and table, and
(Section 4),
• associated electronics in the detector head
The manual does not cover detector electron- and in the gantry base.
ics. That information is contained in the fol-
lowing manuals:
1-1
SECTION 1
1-2
INTRODUCTION
Figure 1-1. Epic Single Head Genesys
INTRODU CTION SECTION 1
Detector electronics consist of (1) PM tubes Figure 1-3 shows the interface of an Epic Sin-
and associated high voltage control and dis- gle H ead Genesys camera to an Atlas Image
tribution circuitry, (2) pre-amplifiers for am- Acquisition system. The Atlas system consists
plifying PM tube outputs and creating a of a Matador Correction Electronics, a Per-
digital trigger for starting subsequent digitiza- sonal Computer (PC) and a Sun U ltra AX sys-
tion of the amplified PM tube signals, (3) dig- tem.
itizer circuity, (4) position calculation
circuitry and (5) a single board controller in The H ybrid Parallel I/O (PIO) board
each detector head for intefacing to the rest provides parallel control and data interface to
of the system and handling specific detector the Matador Correction Electronics board.
functions (e.g., table download, diagnostics The H ybrid Parallel I/O board also carries
and automatic gain adjustments). out Matador Correction Electronics board di-
agnostics and provides high voltage control
The Madator Correction Electronics board functions.
receives uncorrected event data from the de-
tector and corrects that data for spatial posi- The Janis board performs left/right and
tion and energy variations. top/bottom orientation. It also converts paral-
lel data to serial data and transfers the data to
Pegasys Interface the Sun U ltra AX processor via a SCSI-2 link.
Figure 1-2 shows the interface of an Epic Sin- The Sun U ltra AX processor performs image
gle H ead Genesys camera to a Pegasys Image binning (image creation) and image storage
Acquisition/Processing system. functions.
1-3
EPIC SINGLE HEAD GENESYS ( PEGASYS)
SECTION 1
EPIC PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) PEGASYS
FILM
DEPARTMENT FORMATTER
ETHERNET
ETHERNET
BOARD E-NET
XCVR
EPIC &
TRANSCVR HOST-BUS HOST BUS
ETHERNET TWISTED PAIR
S-BUS I/F
S-BUS
H.V. CTRL FORMATTER
HYBRID AC
16 BIT PROCESSOR SUN
PARALLEL (ACP) SYSTEM SYSTEM
EPIC CONTROLLER
DETECTOR #1 X,Y I/F Graphics
ELECTRONICS ZE I/F
in non-stack
(MCE)
DISPLAY
CONTROL VIDEO
SWITCH I/O
BUS
KEY-
I/O DISPLAY
BOARD
BOARD PIPELINE
MOUSE
AT-BUS
MONITOR
MATROX FLOPPY VGA DISPLAY IMAGE
CPU
RS 232
RS 232
BUFFER MEMORY
INTRODUCTION
IMAGE TEXT KEYBOARD
PC/STACK
MONITOR MONITOR
RS 232
RS 232 GANTRY
INTRODUCTION
Atlas
EPIC PERSONAL COMPUTER (PC) SUN
10 T DEPARTMENT
50 ohm
ETHERNET
ETHERNET
OPTIONS:
EPIC BOARD &
10 BASE-T
TRANSCVR 50 Ohm
COM 1
ZIP
DRIVE
HARD DISK
AT-BUS
RS 232
RS 232
IMAGE TEXT KEYBOARD
MONITOR MONITOR
PC/STACK
RS 232
RS 232
SECTION 1
GANTRY
Scope Overview
This section describes the mechanisms for Each moving gantry mechanism includes a po-
moving gantry components. Topics include: tentiometer and an optical encoder.
• calibration procedure,
Similarly, the optical disk in each encoder
connects to a moving gantry mechanism. The
• position verification, and optical sensor in the encoder connects to a
reference structure. Electrically, the encoder
• speed verification. outputs pulses. The optical sensing of tick
marks on the encoder optical disk generates
The mechanisms (motions) that require cali- pulses during motion of the disk and associ-
bration are: ated gantry structure. Each revolution of the
disk produces 500 square wave pulses which
produces 2000 ticks.
• gantry rotation,
2-1
SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
ometers for position information after power- • gears slipping relative to potentiometers,
up. However, the system compares potenti-
ometer and encoder-determined positions to • potentiometers slipping relative to
detect mechanical slip problems. When slips encoders,
occur, the system reports an error condition
to the equipment operator.
• encoders slipping relative to mechanisms,
and
To provide direction sensing, encoders output
two signals, an A signal and a B signal. The B
• mechanisms slipping relative to
signal either lags or leads the A signal by 90
potentiometers.
degrees depending of the direction of motion.
Figure 2-1 shows these signals.
Additionally, an E3 error code will occur if
you incorrectly perform the potentiometer/en-
Error Condition Reporting coder calibration (discussed below). For ex-
ample, if you calibrate gantry rotation at -180
Each motion has an associated position toler- and 0 (instead of -180 and + 180), potentiome-
ance between encoder-determined and poten- ter position changes will be twice as large as
tiometer-determined positions. Table 2-1 encoder position changes. This is because you
shows the tolerance for each motion. calibrated the encoder over 180 instead of 360
degrees.
When the system detects an out-of-tolerance
difference between encoder-determined and Potentiometer Replacement
potentiometer-determined positions, the sys-
tem generates an E3 error code. The error
To replace the potentiometer for any motion,
code will appear in the appropriate field of
follow these steps:
the display box shown (Fig 2-2). Thus an error
in detector # 1 radius motion will appear in
the upper left corner of the display box. 1. position the associated mechanism (gan-
try, detector, etc.) near its center of
movement;
Table 2-2 shows all Display Box error codes,
their cause and suggested corrective action.
Tables 2-3 and 2-4 show the same information 2. before installing a new 10 turn potenti-
for information codes and limit codes. ometer, center the wiper by turning it
fully to one end and then turning it 5
turns in the other direction 1;
Encoder and potentiometer position discrep-
ancies may occur when any mechanical link-
age problems occur. Possible problems 3. install the potentiometer; and
include:
4. perform the calibration procedure de-
• drive chains falling off, scribed at the end of this section 2 .
2 When entering the Cal Mode in the calibration procedure, the potentiometer value should be
near its mid range value of 2000 if you correctly center the wiper.
2-2
GANTRY CALIBRATION SECTION 2
PREPROGRAMMED POSITIONS
MANUAL MOTION
1 2 3 4 5 6
OVERRIDE HAULTED
HOME COLLIMATOR BRAIN TOTAL ECT OUTER Override/
CHANGE BODY SETUP ROOM Reset
EMERGENCY STOP
RADIUS ROTATION
DETECTOR
TRANSLATION ROTATION
GANTRY
F
A
S DOWN UP P-SCOPE
T
S
L
O TABLE ERASE
W
2-3
GANTRY CALIBRATION SECTION 2
TABLE 2-1
ERROR (E) CODES
E-3 E2PROM read or write System cannot successfully Ensure E2PROM jumpers
error during calibration. write new calibration to are in the “rear” position.
E2PROM. Redo calibration of affected
motion.
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SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
E-5 Program text checksum Corrupt Gantry MPU code. Download Gantry code.
error Replace Gantry code.
E-8 0 Commanded motion is not Blown motor controller fuse. Replace fuse.
moving Motor controller failure. Replace motor controller.
E-8 1 Commanded speed is more Max speed too high Redo motor controller
than 1.5cm or 5° away speed calibration for
from desired position effected motion.
E-10 Preprogram invalid button SELECT and ENABLE Wait 20 seconds between
error (nonfatal) buttons pressed to close pushing SELECT and
together in time. ENABLE buttons.
E-11 Preprogram motion setup SELECT and ENABLE Wait 20 seconds between
error (nonfatal) buttons pressed to close pushing SELECT and
together in time. ENABLE buttons.
Help Preprogrammed motion Motion out of limit for Move motion to a position
out of range or table must preprogrammed motion. within range.
be removed error
(nonfatal).
2-5
SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
General Calibration Procedure. The calibra- Application software can decrease the speed
tion procedure sets a scale factor. The scale of any motion, and the left/right handcontrol-
factor relates voltage drops across each poten- lers have two speed switches (fast and slow en-
tiometer to the position of each gantry mecha- able). However, a single potentiometer on
nism. The system calculates and stores the each Motor Controller board controls the
scale factor for each motion after you "tell" maximum speed for each motion.
the system when the mechanism is at specified
positions. The specified positions are usually
near the minimum and maximum limits. The purpose of the Motor Controller Gain
Calibration is to set the maximum speed for
each motion within a tolerance range. If the
To perform calibrations, you will communi- speed is out of tolerance, you should adjust
cate with the system through the handcontrol- the gain pot for that motion.
ler and receive system information from the
display panel. (Figure 2-2).
Detailed instructions for setting each gain ap-
pear at the end of this section.
For calibration procedures, the "Imaging"
keys on the upper row of the handcontroller
(START, PAU SE/ENABLE, RESU ME, Motion Limits
STOP and SLOW ENABLE) take on mean-
ings that do not correspond to their labels. For reference purposes, Table 2-3 shows the
For example, pressing PAU SE/MARK tells hardware and software limits for each motion.
the system that the gantry is at a prescribed
calibration point. Later instructions describe
these keys.
2-6
GANTRY CALIBRATION SECTION 2
JMP2
JMP3
MPU
JMP2
Normal JMP3
position
(front) Calibration
enable
position
(rear)
Limit Override
Switch
Figure 2-3. Location of System Harness Interface Board and Limit Override Switch.
2-7
SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
TP1 R42
TP2
GROT (T904-0070)
2-8
GANTRY CALIBRATION SECTION 2
TABLE 2-2
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE MOTION LIMITS and
MAXIMUM SPEED SPECIFICATION
Gantry Rotate -197.5 deg -190 deg 190 deg 197.5 deg 450 deg/min
TABLE 2-3
SUMMARY OF DISPLAY PANEL CONTROLS
USED IN GANTRY CALIBRATION
Enter Calibrate Mode H old START & STOP, then press SLOW ENABLE
2-9
SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
2-12
GANTRY CALIBRATION SECTION 2
2-13
SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
d. Place a strip of masking tape vertically 4. For second cal point (33 cm):
through the center of the gantry ring (in a. With handcontrol, move detector out until
side diameter is 33.5"); on the masking number in Current Position display is 33
tape, mark the vertical center of the ring. (pot increasing).
Do not drive pot (PPPP) above 3800.2
b. Press PAUSE/MARK to store cal point.
5. To conclude calibration:
a. Place E2PROM jumpers JMP2 and JMP3
Center on Gantry MPU in the normal (front) posi
tion (Fig 2-2).
b. Go to Position Verify procedure below.
Table Calibration
GROT
Switches and initial pot settings on Minarick Control boards are as follows:
12:00 10:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 12:00 7:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00
DROT TB HD
12:00 10:00 2:00 11:00 12:00 12:00 2:00 12:00 7:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00
DRAD TB FT
DB ACC-DEC Max Spd IR Comp Rev TQ Fwd TQ Slo Spd
12:00 7:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00
TRANS SW 501
SCR1
DB ACC-DEC Max Spd IR Comp Rev TQ Fwd TQ Slo Spd
LEN1
SCR2
Notes: 1. On 50 hz systems, DB pots on all boards LEN2
must be turned fully counter-clockwise. SCR3
2. As of this writing (3/95), Genesys systems LEN3
use KBIC controllers. See T960-1760. DROT DRAD TRANS TB HD TB FT
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SECTION 2 GANTRY CALIBRATION
2-18
SECTION 4
AC/DC POWER
Scope The Gantry includes two additional circuit
breakers, "Camera C/B" and "Motor C/B".
This section discusses: These breakers are on the left rear panel. Cus-
tomers will not normally use these switches.
• AC and DC power,
The "Camera C/B" switch disconnects power
to the detector, including the PM tubes. It
• emergency stop and collision detection, and does not affect gantry motor power.
As shown in Figures 4-1 and 4-2, the Pegasys • Matador electronics, and
and Atlas racks include a "Rear C/B" circuit
breaker to control all Pegasys/Atlas and gan- • Personal Computer (PC).
try power. That breaker mounts in a bottom
rear Pegasys or Atlas panel. Gantry power supplies provide power to:
4-1
SECTION 4
Pegasys Electronics Rack Epic Single Head Genesys Gantry
+24v
board) +5v
DC PS DC PS
Hard ±12v
#5 +5v ±15v #2
Disk
±12v
±5v
SW +24
1
+5v F5 Linear Linear Linear
-12v 2
+24v +5v,±15v +5v
Switching Switching +24v DC PS DC PS DC PS
±5v, ±12v +5v, ±12v #3 #4
4-2
#1
DC PS DC PS
7
K2
4 K2
SW +24
K1 1 1 1 1
F1 F4 F2
110v 2 2 2 2
F3
Front C/B Camera C/B K2 K2
5 8 9 6
7 4
220 Rear Line
15.0 amps 110v
VAC C/B Filter 9 6 110v
110v Motor C/B K1
+24v
board) DC PS DC PS
#5 +5v ±15v #2
±12v
±5v
SW +24
1
F5 Linear Linear Linear
2
+24v +5v,±15v +5v
Switching +24v DC PS DC PS DC PS
±5v, ±12v #3 #4
4-3
#1
DC PS
7
K2 K2
4
SW +24
K1 1 1 1 1
F1 F4 F2
110v 2 2 2 2
F3
Front C/B Camera C/B K2 K2
7 4 5 8 9 6
220 Line
Rear 15.0 amps 110v
VAC Filter 9 6 110v
C/B K1
110v Motor C/B 7 4
SECTION 4
(NUAC)
#2
(for Detector)
ADAC #: 2146-3431
Board
-5 v Return (white) +OUT
-5 v Return Sense (white) +S
-5 v Sense (gray) -S
-5 v (gray) -OUT
Transformer
#5
4 2 3 1 5 (for Detector)
ADAC #: 2129-5153
#3
(for Gantry MPU)
ADAC #: T180-0010
#1
(for Detector)
ADAC #: 2146-3429
Board
+24 v (yellow) +OUT
+24 v Sense (yellow) +S
+24 v Return Sense (green) -S #4
-OUT
+24 v Return (green) (for Detector)
Transformer ADAC #: 2146-3430
Board
4 2 3 1 5
+5 v (white) +OUT
+5 v (white)
+5 v Sense (white) +S
+5 v Return Sense (gray) -S
+5 v Return (gray) -OUT
+5 v Return (gray)
Transformer
4 2 1 3 5
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AC/DC POWER & E-STOPS SECTION 4
Emergency stop switches allow the operator The next few paragraphs cover the collision
to quickly stop gantry motion. These switches override jumpers that the factory uses, and
are highly visible and accessible. E-Stop the collision override button that customer
switches appear on: and field service personnel use.
4-5