Robust radiotherapy planning

Planning National Radiotherapy Services

Countries, states, and island nations often need forward planning of their radiotherapy services driven by different motives. Countries without radiotherapy services sponsor patients to receive radiotherapy abroad. They often engage professionals for a feasibility study in order to establish whether it would be more cost-beneficial to establish a radiotherapy facility. Countries where radiother...

Radiotherapy planning using MRI.

The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in radiotherapy (RT) planning is rapidly expanding. We review the wide range of image contrast mechanisms available to MRI and the way they are exploited for RT planning. However a number of challenges are also considered: the requirements that MR images are acquired in the RT treatment position, that they are geometrically accurate, that effects of p...

Radiotherapy treatment planning

In radical radiotherapy treatment we aim to accurately deliver a lethal dose of radiation to tumour cells while sparing any surrounding normal tissues. Radiotherapy treatment planning is the process undertaken to determine the most appropriate way to deliver the radiation in order to meet the clinical prescription. Rapid advances in technology and computing, particularly in relation to imaging,...

Autostereoscopic Display for Radiotherapy Planning

The work described here forms part of a programme of research into the application of direct volume rendering methods to the visualization of radiation therapy plans. The full programme covers a number of related topics, including the investigation of fast parallel algorithms for interactive rendering,1,2 the design of special protocols for communication between low-cost workstations and a para...

PETCT in radiotherapy treatment planning