Documentation/Nightly/Modules/DoseAccumulation

Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work is part of the SparKit project, funded by An Applied Cancer Research Unit of Cancer Care Ontario with funds provided by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario Consortium for Adaptive Interventions in Radiation Oncology (OCAIRO) to provide free, open-source toolset for radiotherapy and related image-guided interventions. Author: Kevin Wang (Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network Toronto) Contact: Kevin Wang, <email>kevin.wang@rmp.uhn.on.ca</email>

Cancer Care Ontario   Software Platform and Adaptive Radiotherapy Kit

Module Description

The DoseAccumulation module accumulates the multiple dose distribution maps into one dose map. The output accumulated dose volume is the weighted sum of the input dose volumes.

Use Cases

Evaluate total delivered dose for multiple treatment fractions.

Dose accumulation

Tutorials

See SlicerRT extension page

Panels and their use

• Input
  • Show dose volumes only: Ic checked, only the volumes that have been created by a SlicerRT module (such as DicomRtImport or DoseAccumulation) are displayed
  • Dose volume table
    • The checked dose volumes are accumulated
    • Weight can be assigned to the dose distributions for the accumulation
• Output
  • Accumulated dose volume: The output volume
  • Apply: Compute accumulated dose and save it in the output volume

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