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Treatment simulators and computer assisted tomography

Rambam Medical Center, The North Israel Oncology Center, Technion-Aba Khoushy School of Medicine, Haifa, Israel

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The functions of the treatment simulator are localization of tumour volume and verification that the treatment fields include the tumour while sparing healthy tissue. For radiotherapy planning by computer the radiation beams are represented in digital form. We suggest that if accurate and detailed three-dimensional information on the relevant parts of the patient's anatomy, including the positions of reference markers on the skin, is available in digital form as well, it is feasible to verify the coverage of the treatment fields in the patient by computer calculation.