title: Computer applications in radiation therapy treatment planning.
abstract: A virtual revolution in computer capability has occurred in the last few years, based largely on rapidly decreasing cost and increasing reliability of digital memory and mass storage capability. These developments have now made it possible to consider the application of both computer and imaging technology to a much broader range of problems in radiation therapy including dose computation, therapy planning and treatment verification. In this paper, a review of the current status in the United States of dose computational algorithms for photon beam and electron beams and treatment planning display is presented.
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D003626:Data Display; D004583:Electrons; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000379:methods*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012984:Software; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States