- Integration
- RayStation 12A imports and exports DICOM and DICOM RT images, structures, plans, and dose objects and can exchange data with PACS, treatment delivery, and oncology workflow systems. The reviewed architecture uses patient, machine, and clinic Microsoft SQL databases.
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Validate every DICOM service, transfer profile, object mapping, treatment-machine interface, database dependency, and failure-recovery path in the local environment.
- Deployment and data flow
- RayStation 12A supports Windows workstations connected to Microsoft SQL Server and DICOM systems, with documented desktop, centralized Citrix, shared application-server, and restricted virtual-machine patterns. The FDA summary permits standard desktop or remote virtualized use when remote behavior is verified equivalent to local use and states that RayStation is not intended for long-term image or patient-data storage.
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- Security and privacy
- The FDA summary describes licensing controls, checksums, and administrator-limited database access. RaySearch's 12A environment guide calls for role-based Active Directory groups, least privilege, encrypted SQL and backend communications, VPN or network segmentation for legacy DICOM, disk and database encryption where appropriate, encrypted backups, malware protection, account lockout, and controlled remote access.
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The environment guide warns that secure operation on Windows Server 2016 cannot be guaranteed after the end of NVIDIA R470 security support. Confirm the exact supported operating-system, GPU-driver, database, and patch matrix for the installed build.
- Training and support
- The organization is responsible for ensuring that only authorized, appropriately trained planners and other qualified users operate RayStation 12A. Training should cover the configured clinical functions, plan review, machine and beam-model commissioning, automated segmentation review, dose-check independence, export verification, and applicable warnings.
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- Monitoring and change control
- RayStation 12A implementation guidance requires installation-specific acceptance and commissioning, independent dose verification, DICOM export checks, controlled software and hardware changes, database backup and maintenance, and monitoring of disk capacity, services, and processor resources. Automated-segmentation and machine-learning outputs remain subject to qualified-user review and local model commissioning.
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Local governance should also include incident review, backup-restoration tests, interface reconciliation, performance baselines, access review, vulnerability response, change control, and FDA recall surveillance.
Application and database architecture
The FDA summary describes RayStation, RayPhysics, and RayTreat applications and separate Microsoft SQL patient, machine, and clinic databases.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-02 Assign technical ownership for application servers, databases, storage, backups, treatment interfaces, and clinical configuration.
Supported deployment patterns
The 12A environment guide documents local desktop, centralized Citrix, shared application-server, and restricted virtual-machine designs using Windows clients, Microsoft SQL Server, and supported NVIDIA GPUs.
exact product version · checked 2026-09-02 Size CPU, memory, GPU, storage, database, remote-display, and concurrency for the purchased modules and workload; confirm every component against the installed 12A build.
DICOM and treatment workflow
RayStation 12A imports CT, PET, and MR data and supports DICOM and DICOM RT exchange of images, structures, plans, and dose with connected clinical systems.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-02 The IFU requires verification that DICOM export completed successfully. Include object-level reconciliation and treatment-machine end-to-end tests in acceptance.
Security baseline
Role-based Active Directory groups separate administration, beam commissioning, plan approval, and machine-learning administration; the guide also describes least privilege, encrypted communications and storage, protected backups, malware controls, account lockout, VPN or segmentation for legacy DICOM, and controlled remote access.
exact product version · checked 2026-09-02 Translate vendor guidance into a site security design, access matrix, patch plan, vulnerability process, backup architecture, logging plan, and downtime procedure.
Acceptance, commissioning, and change control
The IFU requires installation-specific acceptance after relevant hardware or software changes, local commissioning of machine-learning models, qualified-user review of automated segmentations, and genuinely independent dose verification.
exact product version · checked 2026-09-02 Create signed acceptance protocols for each modality, machine, energy, technique, dose engine, model, script, interface, and report used clinically.
Operations and maintenance
The environment guide calls for database backup and reindexing and monitoring of disk capacity, services, and processor utilization.
exact product version · checked 2026-09-02 Define alert thresholds, owners, escalation, restoration tests, maintenance windows, capacity forecasts, and evidence retention.
Current product-family context
RaySearch continues to market RayStation as a configurable treatment-planning platform spanning multiple treatment techniques and machine ecosystems and maintains versioned safety and performance documentation.
product family · checked 2026-09-02 Map all current commercial claims, support terms, upgrade paths, and optional modules back to the exact licensed 12A configuration.