Method and apparatus to facilitate optimizing a radiation treatment plan remotely

Abstract

These various embodiments can serve to facilitate optimizing a radiation treatment plan to administer therapeutic radiation to a particular patient using a particular radiation treatment platform (that may include, for example, a medical linear accelerator) located at a facility having a radiation treatment platform user interface. The radiation treatment platform user interface is coupled to a remote user interface via a secure remote connection that does not permit the remote user interface to operate any radiation delivery capability of the treatment platform nor to execute movement of any of the dynamical components and to then conduct two-way communications (which may be encrypted if desired) between the radiation treatment platform user interface and the remote user interface regarding a radiation treatment plan to administer therapeutic radiation to the particular patient using the particular radiation treatment platform, wherein the two-way communications can include a final approval of an optimized radiation treatment plan.

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