Documentation/Nightly/Extensions/SlicerRT

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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)
Contacts:

• Andras Lasso, <email>lasso@cs.queensu.ca</email>
• Mailing list, <email>slicerrt@alerts.assembla.com</email> (need to register to Assembla using the email address from which the email is sent)
• How to report an error

Website: slicerrt.org
License: Slicer license
Download/install: install 3D Slicer, start 3D Slicer, open the Extension Manager, install the SlicerRT extension (see more details on the download page)

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. Additional information for users can be found on the User's guide page

Modules DICOM-RT import DICOM-RT export Contours Dose volume histogram Dose accumulation Dose comparison Isodose line and surface display Contour comparison Contour morphology Patient hierarchy Transform visualizer (moved to separate extension) Modules from Plastimatch (Greg Sharp) Plastimatch Automatic deformable image registration (Greg Sharp) Plastimatch LANDWARP Landmark (Greg Sharp) Plastimatch XFORMWARP (Greg Sharp) 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 Evaluation of gel dosimetry Testing of treatment planning algorithms

Tutorials

• Summer NA-MIC week 2013 tutorial (recommended)
  • Tutorial presentation: download from Slicer wiki
  • Sample data: download from MIDAS
• ECR 2013 - Medical University Vienna workshop
  • Workshop material: download from NA-MIC.org
• RSNA 2012 tutorial
  • Tutorial description: SlicerRT wiki: Slicer tutorials at RSNA 2012
  • Sample data: download SlicerRT ART dose verification data from Midas server
• Summer NA-MIC week 2012 tutorial
  • Tutorial presentation: download from the SlicerRT website
  • Sample data: download from the SlicerRT website

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

How to cite

Please cite the following paper when referring to Plus in your publication:
C. Pinter, A. Lasso, A. Wang, D. Jaffray and G. Fichtinger, "SlicerRT – Radiation therapy research toolkit for 3D Slicer", Med. Phys., 39(10) pp. 6332-6338, 2012

@ARTICLE{Pinter2012,
  author = {Pinter, C. and Lasso, A. and Wang, A. and Jaffray, D. and Fichtinger, G.},
  title = {SlicerRT – Radiation therapy research toolkit for 3D Slicer},
  journal = {Med. Phys.},
  year = {2012},
  volume = {39},
  number = {10},
  pages = {6332-6338},
}

Information for Developers

• SlicerRT developers wiki page