Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1993-01-01

Filename

WUCS-93-14.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-93-14

Abstract

Computers have been used in radiation therapy since the early 1960s to perform dose calculations. In the last decade, researchers have developed computer-based clinical decision-support systems for assisting in different decision-making tasks in radiation therapy. This paper reviews eleven prototype systems developed for target volume delineation, treatment planning, treatment plan evaluation, and treatment machine diagnosis. The advent of three-dimensional (3D) conformal radiation therapy (CRT) provides radiation oncologists with the opportunity to consider innovative beam arrangements which were not possible in two-dimensional class solutions. The difficulty of manually generating the thousands of clinically plausible 3D treatment plans calls for the use of decision-support systems to generate them automatically. The large data sets generated in 3D CRT make manual treatment plan evaluation. Computer-based optimization of 3D CRT can be then performed by combining the systems for automatic plan generation and objective plan evaluation.

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Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7GQ6W0V

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