CNAO Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Pavia University, Biomedical Informatics Lab "Mario Stefanelli", Pavia, Italy
The Italian National Hadrontherapy Center (CNAO) is a particle treatment and research center equipped with a synchrotron accelerator. The configuration and support environment of CNAO’s control system, originally designed in 2003, is currently being upgraded to incorporate mobile devices. As part of the technological upgrade, a product line architecture has been designed with intent to define application scope, reusability of core assets, and specification of variation points. Implementation and compliance with the product line architecture aims at reducing application’s development time, improving reliability, and aiding medical certification procedures. However, definition and compliance with the architecture comes with considerable overhead development costs. In order to assist the development of new environment applications, a visual wizard has been developed to create customized base applications. This paper presents the challenges encountered and description of the product line architecture for the upgraded configuration and support environment. Alongside, we also describe the Wizard Generator, currently implemented applications, and planned application validation.
CNAO Foundation, Pavia, Italy
Pavia University, Biomedical Informatics Lab "Mario Stefanelli", Pavia, Italy
The Italian National Hadrontherapy Center (CNAO) is a cancer treatment center employing a synchrotron to accelerate charged particle beams. The configuration and support environment of CNAO’s control system is responsible for managing the repository, configuring the control system, as well as performing non-real time support operations. Applications in this environment interface with the relational repository, remote file systems, as well as lower level control system components. As part of the technological upgrade of the configuration and support environment, CNAO plans to integrate mobile applications into the control system. In order to lay the groundwork for the new generation of applications, new communication interfaces had to be designed. To achieve this, a web services approach was taken, with the objective of standardizing access to these resources. In this paper we describe in detail the update of the communication channels. Additionally, several solutions to challenges encountered, such as access management, logging, and interoperability, are presented.