FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to radiation therapy. Disclosed is a machine-readable long-term storage medium storing a set of instructions executed by processor. Set of instructions operates to receive a medical image of current patient, comparison of medical image of the current patient with multiple medical images of previous patients, selection of one of the previous patients based on geometrical similarity between medical images previous patients and medical image of current patient, and determination of initial plan of radiation therapy on basis of radiation therapy for selected one of previous patients.
EFFECT: machine-readable long-term storage medium provides qualitative determination of beam therapy plan, owing to excluding subjective errors of a specialist and reduced radiation dose.
15 cl, 3 dwg
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Dates
2016-05-27—Published
2011-12-07—Filed