Benchmark system for radiation therapy planning
AssigneeSun Nuclear Corporation
InventorBENJAMIN E. NELMS
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Abstract
A system for evaluating radiation treatment planning generates a fictitious treatment dose matrix with a quality of dose placement beyond that achievable with physically realizable radiation therapy machines. Such a fictitious treatment dose matrix provides an objective measure that is readily tailored to different clinical situations, and although unattainable, thereby provides a benchmark allowing evaluation of radiation plan goals and the radiation plans between different multiple clinical situations and individuals.
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An evaluation system for radiation therapy planning comprising an electronic computer executing a program stored in a non-transient medium to execute the steps of:
- (a) receive a subset of radiation planning data for a given patient selected from a set of:
- anatomy volume contours and target volume prescriptions;
- (b) generate a fictitious treatment dose matrix from the subset of radiation planning data with a modeling process
- (c) receive radiation planning information selected from the group consisting of radiation plan goals for the given patient and a clinical radiation therapy plan for the given patient;
- (d) evaluate the radiation planning information against the fictitious treatment dose matrix;
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- (e) output the evaluation.
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