UTILIZATION OF CT IMAGE DATA IN THE PREPA RATION FOR THERMORADIOTHERAPY

Medical imaging procedures are providing qualitative and, increasingly , quantitative diagnostic information on the morphology and function o f the human organism. As possibilities for communication and data proc essing continue to grow, they are also being applied in the field of t herapy. Taking combined local radiotherapy and thermotherapy for the t reatment of uterine carcinoma as an example, this paper describes the integration of the biological-pathological situation into the modellin g of isothermal profiles using the patient's image data.