[Application and prospects for development of a system of dosimetric planning of radiotherapy]

A model of a system of dosimetric design of radiotherapy on the basis of SM-4 and ES-1033 computers has been developed and is being tested. Radiotherapy for over 600 patients with tumors of different sites was designed within 1 year. The simplicity of the system allowed a radiologist to take an active part in the choice of a favourable radiotherapy design. Four variants of dose distributions on an average were computed for each patient. A study of the time characteristics of the system has shown that the time of input of the data on a patient and beam parameters does not practically depend on the computer speed and lasts for an average of 15 min. Dose field computation and optimization of inputs vary from 0.4 to 6 min. depending on a volume of computation and computer type. A one-task computer system with one working place and memory is able to meet the requirements in dosimetric design for 2-3 radiotherapeutic units. More units will require multitask and all-purpose computers with 2 and more working places. Minimum standards of computer memory and speed are the same as in the first case.