Documentation/4.1/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)
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.

Software features include:

• DICOM-RT import
• Dose volume histogram computation and visualization
• Dose accumulation
• Dose comparison

Modules

• DICOM-RT import
• Dose volume histogram
• Dose accumulation
• Dose comparison (work in progress)
• Isodose line and surface display (work in progress)

Use Cases

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

Tutorials

• Tutorial presentation: link to be added
• Sample data: link to be added

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References

• SlicerRT users guide pages