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After a short summary on therapy planning and the underlying technologies we discuss quantitative medicine by giving a short overview on medical image data, summarizing some applications of computer based treatment planning, and outlining requirements on medical planning systems. Then we continue with a description of our medical planning system HyperPlan. It supports typical working steps in therapy planning, like data aquisition, segmentation, grid generation, numerical simulation and optimization, accompanying these with powerful visualization and interaction techniques.
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Beck, R., Deuflhard, P., Hege, HC., Seebaß, M., Stalling, D. (1997). Numerical Algorithms and Visualization in Medical Treatment Planning. In: Hege, HC., Polthier, K. (eds) Visualization and Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59195-2_20
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