Case study: Using industrial PCs in radiotherapy – precision can save lives

Our customer has developed a system that uses innovative tracking technologies such as surface, heat and X-ray monitoring to enable highly precise radiation treatments so that a tumor can be treated in a targeted manner. Using cameras, patient movements can be detected in real time, patient positioning can be automatically adjusted and the patient can be irradiated in a targeted manner for longer. These automated treatments require a high-performance workstation with GPU performance for image and video processing and control of the radiotherapy system. The industrial PC is housed in a compact server cabinet.

Challenge no. 1: Space restrictions for the server rack
The standard server cabinets originally used were too large. Due to space restrictions, the new server rack needed to be as compact as possible. Another requirement was the conception in a modern corporate design. An independent power supply was just as essential for medical purposes.

Challenge no. 2: Depth of the workstation
The high performance 19″ 4U industrial PC had to fit into the newly designed server cabinet with an adapted depth of <450 mm and an adapted cooling concept. The workstation had to provide space for four plug-in cards (network cards and graphics cards), including two powerful NVIDIA RTX graphics cards, suitable for processing 3D and thermal imaging camera data. In addition, the interfaces had to be designed towards the front in order to remain accessible at all times, even after installation.