RT Journal Article
T1 eIMRT: a web platform for the verification and optimization of radiation treatment plans
A1 Pena, Javier
A1 González Castaño, Diego Miguel
A1 Gómez Rodríguez, Faustino
A1 Gago Arias, María Araceli
A1 González Castaño, Francisco Javier
A1 Rodríguez Silva, Daniel
A1 Gómez, Andrés
A1 Mouriño, Carlos
A1 Pombar, Miguel
A1 Sánchez, Manuel
K1 Monte Carlo
K1 Treatment verification
K1 Treatment optimization
K1 Convolution/superposition
K1 Web application
K1 Multiplan framework
K1 CRT planning
K1 IMRT planning
AB The eIMRT platform is a remote distributed computing tool that provides users with Internet access to three different services: Monte Carlo optimization of treatment plans, CRT & IMRT treatment optimization, and a database of relevant radiation treatments/clinical cases. These services are accessible through a user-friendly and platform independent web page. Its flexible and scalable design focuses on providing the final users with services rather than a collection of software pieces. All input and output data (CT, contours, treatment plans and dose distributions) are handled using the DICOM format. The design, implementation, and support of the verification and optimization algorithms are hidden to the user. This allows a unified, robust handling of the software and hardware that enables these computation-intensive services. The eIMRT platform is currently hosted by the Galician Supercomputing Center (CESGA) and may be accessible upon request (there is a demo version at http://eimrt.cesga.es:8080/ eIMRT2/demo; request access in http://eimrt.cesga.es/signup.html). This paper describes all aspects of the eIMRT algorithms in depth, its user interface, and its services. Due to the flexible design of the platform, it has numerous applications including the intercenter comparison of treatment planning, the quality assurance of radiation treatments, the design and implementation of new approaches to certain types of treatments, and the sharing of information on radiation treatment techniques. In addition, the web platform and software tools developed for treatment verification and optimization have a modular design that allows the user to extend them with new algorithms.  This software is not a commercial product. It is the result of the collaborative effort of different public research institutions and is planned to be distributed as an open source project. In this way, it will be available to any user; new releases will be generated with the new implemented codes or upgrades
PB Wiley
SN 1526-9914
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22879
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22879
LA eng
NO Pena, J., González‐Castaño, D.M., Gómez, F., Gago‐Arias, A., González‐Castaño, F.J., Rodríguez‐Silva, D., Gómez, A., Mouriño, C., Pombar, M. and Sánchez, M. (2009), eIMRT: a web platform for the verification and optimization of radiation treatment plans. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 10: 205-220
NO This work was financed by Xunta de Galicia of Spain through grant PGIDT05SIN00101CT and by the European Community through the BeInGrid project
DS Minerva
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