Skin dose evaluation support apparatus and treatment planning apparatus
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsHideki Fuji, Yasuyuki Takatani
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Abstract
A skin dose evaluation support apparatus is provided with a skin region contour creation unit that creates skin region information including the boundary coordinates of a skin region, based on image data to be inputted when a treatment plan for a radiation therapy for a patient is created; and a display calculation unit that extracts a skin dose in a skin region, based on dose distribution data calculated by a dose distribution calculation unit of a treatment planning apparatus and the skin region information, and creates display data for displaying the extracted skin dose in a predetermined display format.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for causing a computer to execute a skin dose evaluation support program that displays on a display device a skin dose in a skin region of a patient, comprising the steps of:
- creating skin region information including boundary coordinates of the skin region, based on image data input when a treatment plan for a radiation therapy for the patient is created, and
- extracting the skin dose in the skin region, based on dose distribution data calculated by a treatment planning apparatus and the skin region information, and
- creating display data for displaying the extracted skin dose in a predetermined display format.
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