What is the the RDI Onyx and why is it worth your time? The RDI Onyx is a detector that will be used for quality assurance testing in proton therapy.

It is important because it acheives these goals: improving quality of life, preventing or reducing injuries, saving lives, saving time and money, improving productivity.

The Onyx solves the problem of slow and imprecise/inaccurate tomography. It does this by giving a clear image of where protons hit the detector at a fast frame rate of 25 kHz and micrometer level precision.

The more clear image prevents or reduces injury that can result from an image of poor inferior quality. This clear image will help to save lives. The relatively faster rate at which the detector operates at will result in a higher throughput of patients for clinics. This higher throughput decreases time spent on quality assurance which frees more time to apply proton therapy to indviduals in need of treatment for cancer. The higher efficiency and increased time spent on proton therapy will save time and money for clinics, improve productivity, and save more lives.

It has been explained why RDI Onyx is important, but the RDI Onyx must also be able to operate in the real world to mean anything. Indeed, the RDI Onyx does work in the real world as proven by the prototype.

The Onyx works as a system that is supported by modules to address each step in the proton detection process from receiving electrical signal input to calculating where protons hit the board.

The first step in the process is that the detector board receives current signals from protons passing through the electric field and hitting the detector board pads. Afterwards, the current signals are received by the data acquisition system which converts these current signals into voltages and then digital values. The data acquisition system then stores these digital values into a buffer to later pass on to the computer. In the final step, the computer receives the digital values and uses sophisticated linear algebra to determine the locations where protons collided with the board. The final result is an image that shows precisely where protons hit the board that is used in quality analysis.

The RDI Onyx is important, and it works; however, why not just use what is currently on the market?

It is best to use RDI Onyx over current tools in the market because current proton therapy quality analysis tools in the market are slow, inaccurate, and outdated.

These current tools slow down clinics, increase risks and liabilities, and lead to errors. These issues make most effective cancer treatment choices risky. Also today’s QA systems cannot verify accuracy at the ultra precise level that novel proton therapy tools operate in.

In contrast, RDI Onyx fixes these issues with a fast real-time 25 kHz frame per second rate and micrometer level precision. It can also be converted for use for heavy ion therapy and FLASH therapy to serve more markets.