Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2014 Jun 23:9:145.
doi: 10.1186/1748-717X-9-145.

Making the right software choice for clinically used equipment in radiation oncology

Hilke Vorwerk  1 , Klemens Zink, Daniela Michaela Wagner, Rita Engenhart-Cabillic
Affiliations

Making the right software choice for clinically used equipment in radiation oncology

Hilke Vorwerk et al. Radiat Oncol. .

Abstract

The customer of a new system for clinical use in radiation oncology must consider many options in order to find the optimal combination of software tools. Many commercial systems are available and each system has a large number of technical features. However an appraisal of the technical capabilities, especially the options for clinical implementations, is hardly assessable at first view.The intention of this article was to generate an assessment of the necessary functionalities for high precision radiotherapy and their integration in ROKIS (Radiation oncology clinic information system) for future customers, especially with regard to clinical applicability. Therefore we analysed the clinically required software functionalities and divided them into three categories: minimal, enhanced and optimal requirements for high conformal radiation treatment.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Ruan D, Shao W, Demarco J, Tenn S, King C, Low D, Kupelian P, Steinberg M. Evolving treatment plan quality criteria from institution-specific experience. Med Phys. 2012;39:2708–2712. - PubMed
    1. Liu F, Hu Y, Zhang Q, Kincaid R, Goodman KA, Mageras GS. Evaluation of deformable image registration and a motion model in CT images with limited features. Phys Med Biol. 2012;57:2539–2554. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Hou J, Guerrero M, Chen W, D’Souza WD. Deformable planning CT to cone-beam CT image registration in head-and-neck cancer. Med Phys. 2011;38:2088–2094. - PubMed
    1. Deeley MA, Chen A, Datteri R, Noble JH, Noble JH, Cmelak AJ, Donnelly EF, Malcolm AW, Moretti L, Jaboin J, Niermann K, Yang ES, Yu DS, Yei F, Koyama T, Ding GX, Dawant BM. Comparison of manual and automatic segmentation methods for brain structures in the presence of space-occupying lesions: a multi-expert study. Phys Med Biol. 2011;56:4557–4577. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Hibbard LS. Anatomy structure creation and editing using 3D implicit surfaces. Med Phys. 2012;39:2649–2658. - PubMed

MeSH terms

LinkOut - more resources