Patent ID: 7791051

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 location; 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 a user to modify one or more parameters associated with a selected treatment device stored in the database; and a management component that, in response to a user modification of one or more parameters, retrieves a subset of parameters from the database, the subset of parameters including the one or more 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 devices 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.