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Special report No. 4. Computers in radiotherapy: A status report based on the Second International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy

Physics Department, The London Hospital, London, E.1

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In June, 1966 an international conference on the use of computers in radiology was held in Cambridge and an account of this meeting was published (1967) as a Special Report of the BRITISH JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY. A second conference took place in Chicago in September, 1968 under the joint chairmanship of Dr. J. J. Nickson and Dr. F. Ellis. The subject of this conference was, however, limited to radiotherapy, with emphasis on the use of computers to control the actual implementation of treatment.

A third conference in the series will be held in Glasgow in September, 1970. This conference, like its two predecessors, will be small and informal, participation being by invitation only. Indeed, the purpose of the series of conferences is to advance the frontiers of the subject by facilitating interchange of ideas and experience among those already knowledgeable, rather than the enlightenment of newcomers to the field.

The detailed proceedings of the Chicago conference, in the sense of full texts of the papers and verbatim reports of the discussions, have not been published. The present report is intended to summarise the state of the subject in mid-1970 as a prelude to the Glasgow conference, but without using material specifically prepared for that conference. This report is therefore based on the Chicago conference but the material has been selected, rearranged to a considerable extent, and updated in the light of subsequent publications.