Abstract: A method for planning an infusion of a medical substance into a target region acquires non-patient-specific anatomical data from an atlas in the form of target region geometry information describing target and off-target regions for which an infusion of the medical substance is intended and regions to be avoided, respectively. Target coverage information is derived describing a minimum dose of the medical substance to be infused into the target region and describing a maximum dose of the medical substance to be applied to the off-target region. Relationship information describes a relationship between a physical parameter of an infusion setup and a selected spatial distribution of the medical substance. Infusion setup information for the infusion is determined that describes a planned infusion setup and is based on the relationship information and information related to the target and off-target regions.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a data processing method for planning an infusion of a medical substance into a target region in an anatomical body part, wherein the medical substance is to be infused by means of an infusion setup which comprises an infusion device for performing the infusion as well as the medical substance, the method comprising: a) acquiring relationship data comprising relationship information which describes a relationship between at least one physical parameter of the infusion setup and a predetermined spatial distribution of the medical substance; b) acquiring target coverage data comprising target coverage information describing a planned coverage of the target region by the medical substance; c) determining infusion setup data comprising infusion setup information which describes a planned infusion setup, based on the relationship data and the target coverage data.