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Planning proton therapy of the eye
Author(s) -
Goitein Michael,
Miller Thomas
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.595258
Subject(s) - beam (structure) , viewpoints , aperture (computer memory) , optics , proton therapy , radiation treatment planning , point (geometry) , medical physics , computer science , image quality , physics , computer vision , mathematics , medicine , image (mathematics) , acoustics , radiation therapy , geometry
We describe a program for planning treatments of the eye with charged particle beams. Many of its features apply to treatment planning programs in general. These include the three‐dimensional definition of the tumor volume and of normal structures, the possibility of delivering the treatment beam from any direction in space, the provision of arbitrary viewpoints including a “beam's eye” point of view, the design and fabrication of the field shaping aperture, the specification of the necessary beam quality (range and modulation), the calculation and display of isodose contours on any plane in space and on relevant surfaces, the identification of the extent to which normal structures are included or excluded from the beam, and the simulation of the desired alignment film with which patient alignment can be verified.