Aapplied analysis of radiotherapy apparatus schedule optimization for tumor patients / 中华放射肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To design and develop a treatment unit selecting system in aim of enhancing work efficiency and safety,adjusting treatment unit workload,improving quality of medical care.Methods Various treatment techniques,immobilization devices and setup verification devices were modeled in software.Workload of treatment units were extract from the Record and Verify System.These two types of information were then combined with the unit's workload capability to calculate the optimal radiotherapy apparatus for tumor patient.Results The system had finished selecting radiotherapy apparatusv for more than 5 000 patients since its taking place of the old patient selecting methods.Maximum variation of daily treatment duration between treatment units had decreased from 4-5 hours (mean 4.22 hours) to 1-2 hours (mean 1.84 hours) since the system have been put into operation.Workload and device configuration of various units could be controlled by easily editing of the system configuration file.Conclusions The system developed not only accomplish patient selecting in an optimal and safe way,but also provide a way of easily control the treatment unit workload.