Patent ID: 8354656

Claim:
A radiation beam therapy system comprising: a plurality of treatment devices, including: a charged-particle accelerator that provides a beam of energetic charged particles; a treatment station that allows positioning of a patient to receive at least a portion of the beam of charged particles; and a beam delivery system that delivers the beam of charged particles to the patient positioned at the treatment station; a database component that stores parameters associated with respective treatment devices, wherein the parameters comprise instructional information that can be used to configure the respective treatment devices for operation; an interface component that allows an authorized user to modify at least one of the parameters associated with a respective treatment device; and a management component that, retrieves a subset of parameters from the database, the subset of parameters including at least one of the stored parameters and modified parameters, generates a data storage element comprising the subset of parameters in a format recognizable by the selected treatment device, wherein the data storage element permits configuration of the selected treatment device based, at least in part, on the subset of parameters, and distributes the data storage element to the selected treatment device to thereby permit the selected treatment device to operate independently of the database component.