An efficient and productive radiation treatment planning (RTP) system must make use of both appropriate visualization techniques and good user interface design. The suitability of several visualization techniques have been examined in the context of 3-D radiation treatment planning. These techniques include wire frame, surface rendering, volume rendering and a subset of volume rendering: reformatting of data. A rudimentary computerized RTP system was written using the most appropriate visualization techniques examined earlier. These techniques were used to display the anatomical data acquired from computed tomography (CT) scanners, the beam position within the anatomy, and finally, the dose distributions resulting from the entered plan. The program was written in ANSI C and runs on a Silicon Graphics Personal Iris UNIX workstation. The system makes use of effective user interface tools and efficient code which results in an efficient and interactive system. The accuracy of the system is verified by comparing dose profiles obtained with film dosimetry and from the computer calculations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.69536 |
| Date | January 1993 |
| Creators | Comeau, Roch |
| Contributors | Fallone, B. G. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Medical Radiation Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001327319, proquestno: AAIMM87833, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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