Documentation/Nightly/Modules/ExternalBeamPlanning

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Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work was in part 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: Csaba Pinter (PerkLab, Queen's University), Greg Sharp (Massachusetts General Hospital) Contact: Csaba Pinter, <email>csaba.pinter@queensu.ca</email> Back to SlicerRT home

Cancer Care Ontario   Ontario Consortium for Adaptive Interventions in Radiation Oncology

Module Description

The ExternalBeamPlanning module is a generic, extensible module for forward planning of external beam radiation therapy treatments.

Use Cases

• Proton dose calculation
• Any dose engine can be integrated (C++, Python, Matlab)

External Beam Planning module UI with a prostate proton plan

Output dose of the plan above

Tutorials

• Orthovoltage RT treatment planning tutorial (uses EGSnrc)

Panels and their use

• External Beam Planning module
  • Basic plan data: Reference volume, Structure set, Isocenter, Target volume, Dose engine, Prescription dose
  • Beam list
• Beams module: edit parameters of individual beams
  • Geometry

Beam geometry parameters

• • Energy (extensible by plugins)

Beam energy parameters (including proton-specific parameters)

• • Beam model (extensible by plugins)

Beam model parameters (including proton-specific parameters)

Similar Modules

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References

• Sharp, G., Pinter, C., Unkelbach, J., Fichtinger, G. (2017). Open Source Proton Treatment Planning in 3D Slicer: Status Update. Proceedings to the 56 Annual Meeting of the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group (PTCOG), 8-13 May 2017. International Journal of Particle Therapy: Summer 2017, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 14-83.

Information for Developers

• Sample C++ dose engine: https://github.com/SlicerRt/SlicerRT/blob/master/ExternalBeamPlanning/Widgets/qSlicerMockDoseEngine.h
• Sample Python dose engine: https://github.com/SlicerRt/SlicerRT/blob/master/ExternalBeamPlanning/Widgets/Python/MockPythonDoseEngine.py
• Future plans
  • Inverse planning capabilities
  • Matlab plugin adapter
  • Ports module (apertures, MLC, target volume)
  • Beam groups (common parameters for a group of beams)