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A long-standing radiotherapy problem was that concerning the administration of the correct dose to a tumour without injury to the surrounding tissues. The elaboration of a suitable computer program such as the EXTDOS program of van de Geijn, appeared to help solve the problem and it raised the idea to create a country-wide computerized treatment planning network system relying upon a single big computer.
Such a system now exists controlled from the National Institute of Oncology in Budapest which is in permanent telephone connection with a Honeywell-Bull computer; the other radiotherapy centres possessing cobalt units are also linked to the computer. A point of particular importance is that the system covers a population of ten million, representing a treatment group with an identical dose measurement and evaluation method.
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Dedicated to Prof. I. Kovács on his 70th birthday
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Bozóky, L. Role of physicists in the improvement of telecurie therapy in Hungary. Acta Physica Hungarica 55, 17–25 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03155915
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