Virtual Simulation for Radiatiotherapy Treatment Using Ct Medical Data

Simulators are medical devices used in the oncology clinics to perform the simulation for the external beam radiotherapy treatment. Unlikely for a clinic to obtain a real Simulator is a high investment in terms of money, space and personnel. The alternative here can be a Virtual Simulator (VS). The CT simulators are system-software that can perform the simulation process using the Computed Tomography (CT) data set of the patient, including the external patient’s skin landmarks, instead of the physical patient. In this paper, a new high performance CT based virtual simulation system running on a low cost widely available PC hardware – EXOMIO would be presented. The implemented high-end visualization techniques allow the users to simulate every function of the real simulator including the mechanical component movements, radiation beam projection and fluoroscopy.