Here you would spend most of the time, trying to find the best treatment plan. The possibilities exceed by far the capacity of this website, so just a few examples can be given.

• Three field noncoplanar plan with MLC and EDW for all fields (Cadplan window, Control window, BEV of field 3). To be honest: the plan was never treated this way. Not because I was the creator, but because the setup was too complex (they didn't like the rotated collimator). But we do a lot of similar treatments, without collimator rotation and with physical wedges (the EDW was decommissioned recently, because the techs dont't want to use it - reason: collimator rotates too slowly!).
• This is how the same plan looks in 3D view (Cadplan window, Control window). You can play around with isodoses, volumes and viewing angles.
• This is how a dose volume histogram would look like (Cadplan window, Control window).
• For every action that needs a little more input, a seperate window pops up (like Add MLC).
• As for adding a new patient, a wizard also helps you exporting a final plan into the VARiS database. After login, a patient and a treatment course has to be selected (If the course does not exist you can also create it in Cadplan). Then the only parameters that have to be supplied are the names and IDs of the treatment fields and MLC plans (example field). Accessory codes are now translated automatically if Cadplan is configured that way.

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