Patent ID: 9724539
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: A61N,G06T

Claim:
1. A data processing method of displaying a radiation dose distribution of a treatment radiation in tissue of a patient, the method being executed by a computer and comprising: acquiring medical image data comprising medical image information describing a plurality of anatomical body parts of the patient; acquiring, based on the medical image data, irradiation eligibility data comprising irradiation eligibility information describing an eligibility class to which each anatomical body part of the plurality of anatomical body parts belongs, each eligibility class describing a measure of desirability of irradiating a corresponding anatomical body part with the treatment radiation; acquiring dose distribution data comprising dose distribution information describing the radiation dose distribution in the plurality of anatomical body parts; and displaying, on a display device, the dose distribution information colorized in the medical image information and graphically overlaid with an image of the plurality of anatomical body parts, the displaying of the dose distribution information colorized in the medical image information being based on the irradiation eligibility data and based on using a color shading that represents the dose distribution information in the plurality of anatomical body parts, wherein, for each selected eligibility class, a unique color range is assigned to one or more anatomical body parts belonging to the each selected eligibility class for the displaying.