Computerised Planning Room (1984)
The dedicated team of Radiotherapy Dosimetrists spend their day working closely with the Sussex Cancer Centres' physicians, radiographers and nurses.
The main part of their job is to produce individual treatment plans for each patient; these plans combine ensuring that the prescribed dose of radiation reaches the intended treatment area, as well as making sure that healthy areas in the body are not exposed to high doses of radiation.
To be able to produce these plans, the Dosimetrists work on highly complex treatment planning computers which use 3 dimensional graphics to help to manipulate the patients CT scans. Combining this anatomical information with the treatment requested by the physician, each patient can have an individualised treatment plan produced.
