A Scheduling System for the Patient Treatment on a Heavy-ion Radiotherapy

  • Toyama, Hinako (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Shibayama, Kouichi (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Kanatsu, Syusuke (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Kuroiwa, Toshitaka (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Watanabe, Hideo (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Wakaisami, Mitsuji (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Tsuji, Hiroshi (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Endo, Masahiro (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN) ;
  • Tsujii, Hirohiko (Research Center of Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, JAPAN)
  • Published : 2002.09.01

Abstract

We have developed a scheduling system for heavy ion radiotherapy considering the condition of three treatment rooms and treatment planning for each patient. This system consists of a database (patient information, treatment method and machine schedule), a schedule for radiotherapy and WEB server. All operation of this system, such as data input, to change and to view the schedule, are performed by using a WEB browser. In order to protect personal information for the patients, access privilege to each information are limited by according to the occupational category. This system is connected with a hospital central information management system (AMIDAS) and an irradiation-managing computer for the heavy ion radiotherapy. A basic information for the patient is got from AMIDAS and the daily schedule sends to the treatment control computer at each treatment room through the irradiation-managing computer every morning. The daily, weekly, monthly schedules in the treatment room and the treatment condition of each patient are shared on the WEB browser with the all participants of the heavy ion therapy. This system could be useful to save a time to generate a treatment schedule and to inform us the most up-to-date treatment schedule and the related information at the same time.

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