Published February 2004 | Version v1
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Development of the accurate dose calculation system imagine for remotely aiding radiotherapy

Creators

  • 1. Japan Atomic Energy Reseach Inst., Kizu, Kyoto (Japan). Center for Promotion of Computational Science and Engineering
  • 2. Keio Univ., Tokyo (Japan). School of Medicine
  • 3. Chiba Cancer Center (Japan)
  • 4. Japan Science and Technology Corp., Kawaguchi, Saitama (Japan). CREST
  • 5. Ibaraki Prefectural Univ. of Health Sciences, Ami (Japan)
  • 6. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. of Health Sciences (Japan)

Description

The dose calculation system IMAGINE is under developing for remotely aiding radiotherapy using photons and electrons. The system calculates the accurate dose distribution in a patient, body rapidly utilizing precise models of the patient body and accelerator assembly incorporated with a Monte Carlo calculation. In the completed system, the dose calculation will be performed at the dose calculation center equipped with the information technology based laboratory (ITBL) high-performance computers, and the input and output data will be transferred through a network. The system is intended to support the quality assurance of the current radiotherapy widely carried out at present, and further to promote the prevalence of advanced therapy. The system is scheduled to be completed in 2006. Some prototypes of the modules constituting the system have been already constructed, and confirmed to work properly. These modules will be used to obtain basic data to decide the concrete design of the system. (author)

Part of:
Proceedings of the eleventh EGS4 users' meeting in Japan

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the eleventh EGS4 users' meeting in Japan
Imprint Pagination
129 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 81-87
Report number
KEK-PROC--2003-15

Conference

Title
11. EGS4 users' meeting in Japan
Dates
5-7 Aug 2003
Place
Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
Japan
Country of Input or Organization
Japan
INIS RN
35070292
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CAT SCANNING; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ON-LINE SYSTEMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTON BEAMS; PLANNING; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY
Descriptors DEC
BEAMS; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; LEPTON BEAMS; MEDICINE; MOCKUP; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIOLOGY; STRUCTURAL MODELS; THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY

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