An application framework for computer-aided patient positioning in radiation therapy
| Autor: | T. Liebler, C. Sanner, Wolfgang Schlegel, M. Hub |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Quality Assurance
Health Care Computer science medicine.medical_treatment Patient positioning Health Informatics Context (language use) computer.software_genre Health Information Management Germany Supine Position medicine Humans General Nursing Monitoring Physiologic business.industry Application framework Subtraction Radiotherapy Computer-Assisted Radiation therapy Software framework Optical tracking Computer Terminals Embedded system Computer-aided business computer Software Computer hardware |
| Zdroj: | Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine. 28:161-182 |
| ISSN: | 1463-9238 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14639230310001613458 |
| Popis: | The importance of exact patient positioning in radiation therapy increases with the ongoing improvements in irradiation planning and treatment. Therefore, new ways to overcome precision limitations of current positioning methods in fractionated treatment have to be found. The Department of Medical Physics at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) follows different video-based approaches to increase repositioning precision. In this context, the modular software framework FIVE (Fast Integrated Video-based Environment) has been designed and implemented. It is both hardware- and platform-independent and supports merging position data by integrating various computer-aided patient positioning methods. A highly precise optical tracking system and several subtraction imaging techniques have been realized as modules to supply basic video-based repositioning techniques. This paper describes the common framework architecture, the main software modules and their interfaces. An object-oriented software engineering process has been applied using the UML, C + + and the Qt library. The significance of the current framework prototype for the application in patient positioning as well as the extension to further application areas will be discussed. Particularly in experimental research, where special system adjustments are often necessary, the open design of the software allows problem-oriented extensions and adaptations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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