Abstract:The evaluation of treatment plans for compliance with prescribed treatment objectives is often a manual process that is susceptible to errors or omissions arising from non‐standardized procedures, time constraints or human factors. In an effort to improve the consistency and accuracy of this process we have developed software that automates the comparison between patient dose‐volume histograms (DVH) and pre‐defined dosimetric constraints. Treatment objectives and constraints (i.e. careplans) are stored in a da… Show more
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