Documentation/4.2/Extensions/SlicerRT

Introduction and Acknowledgements

Authors: Csaba Pinter (PerkLab, Queen's University), Andras Lasso (PerkLab, Queen's University), Kevin Wang (Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network Toronto)
Contributors: Greg Sharp (Massachusetts General Hospital), Steve Pieper (Isomics)
Contact: Andras Lasso, <email>lasso@cs.queensu.ca</email>
Website: https://www.assembla.com/spaces/slicerrt
License: Slicer license

Extension Description

SlicerRT is one of the themes of the SparKit (Software Platform and Adaptive Radiotherapy Kit) project with the goal of making 3D Slicer a powerful radiotherapy research platform. SparKit is a project funded by Cancer Care Ontarioand the Ontario Consortium for Adaptive Interventions in Radiation Oncology (OCAIRO) to provide free, open-source toolset for radiotherapy and related image-guided interventions. The SlicerRT extension incorporates Plastimatch modules and algorithms.

Modules

• DICOM-RT import
• Contours
• Dose volume histogram
• Dose accumulation
• Dose comparison
• Isodose line and surface display

• Modules from Plastimatch (Greg Sharp)
  • Plastimatch Automatic deformable image registration (Greg Sharp)
  • Plastimatch DICOM-RT import (Greg Sharp)
  • Plastimatch DICOM-RT export (Greg Sharp)
  • Plastimatch LANDWARP Landmark (Greg Sharp)
  • Plastimatch XFORMWARP (Greg Sharp)

Important note: The Dose Comparison, BSpline Deformable Registration and LANDWARP modules do not show up for Slicer 4.2 on Mac

Use Cases

• Comparison of dose maps and dose volume histograms from various treatment planning systems
• Evaluation of the effect of image-based non-rigid patient motion compensation
• Dose accumulation with motion compensation

Dose volume histogram computation using SlicerRT

Tutorials

• Summer NA-MIC week 2012 tutorial
  • Tutorial presentation: download from the SlicerRT website
  • Sample data: download from the SlicerRT website
• RSNA 2012 tutorial
  • Tutorial description: SlicerRT wiki: Slicer tutorials at RSNA 2012
  • Sample data: download SlicerRT ART dose verification data from Midas server

Similar Extensions

• Plastimatch: SlicerRT and Plastimatch are complementary software libraries. Plastimatch focuses on delivering new computational methods radiotherapy, while SlicerRT aims for providing an easy-to-use interface for a wide range of stable, well-tested radiotherapy related features. SlicerRT uses Plastimatch internally for certain operations.

References

• SlicerRT users guide pages