Health terminology and data exchange standards are integral to the successful adoption of interoperable EHR systems. T
his public seminar series is part of the School of Health Information Science Graduate Certificate in Health Terminology Standards program.
Speaker:
Lynn Nagle, Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick.
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Radiotherapy treatments currently used in the clinical field are rarely modified. They generally consist of a global therapy of 50 grays, fractionated in five treatments of two grays every week for five weeks.
Thus, it could be worthwhile to develop a numeric tool, based on mathematical models found in the literature, in order to compare different types of treatment without having to test them on real tissues. Several parameters are known to alter the tissue response after irradiation including oxygen
