Title :
Development of a Radiation Therapy Open-Source Platform
Author :
Grünwald, Oxana ; Ruhlmann, Jürgen ; Buzug, Thorsten M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Tech., RheinAhrCampus Remagen
fDate :
6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Although several industrial radio-therapy planning solutions presently exist, most of them do not cover the customer needs sufficiently. The aim of this project is to develop an open source radio-therapy planning system that would offer the ground work for individual customer solutions. During the first stage of the project we concentrate on the development of a visualisation module, since it is required for other parts such as dose calculation and beam modelling. The visualisation module will feature 2D and 3D visualisation of CT-, MRI- and PET DICOM images, registration of the images using normalised mutual information, 2D and 3D visualisation of the matched images as well as 2D and 3D user interaction. In this paper an outline for our system is presented as well as a registration module, which is the first part of the visualisation module
Keywords :
PACS; biomedical MRI; dosimetry; image matching; image registration; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; radiation therapy; CT; DICOM images; MRI; PET; beam modelling; dose calculation; image registration; matched images; normalised mutual information; radiation therapy open-source platform; radiotherapy planning; user interaction; visualisation module; Biomedical applications of radiation; Biomedical imaging; DICOM; Mathematics; Medical diagnostic imaging; Oncology; Open source software; Positron emission tomography; Tumors; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616819