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Title:: Development of proton radiotherapy plan analysis and transmission software

Author(s):: LIU Chunbo; PI Yifei; XU Yao; PEI Xi; Center of Radiological Medical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230025, China

Keywords:: ; proton radiotherapy; P-Viewer software; digital imaging and communications in medicine; transmission

Abstract:: Objective To develop an accurate, efficient and cross-platform proton radiotherapy plan analysis and transmission software for the analysis and transmission of clinical data. Methods Based on the radiotherapy in digital imaging and communications in medicine standard, proton radiotherapy plan analysis and transmission software was developed, with software process following object-oriented principles and software interface established by QT tool. Moreover, a WebService-based APT for data analysis and transmission was developed according to simple object access protocol. Results The developed data analysis and transmission software P-Viewer was used to test 20 groups of proton radiotherapy plans. P-Viewer software spent 0.01 s to parse single file of CT, MRI, PET, RTImage, RTIonPlan, or RTStructureSet, etc., and 0.05 s for single RTDose file. The transmission speed boosted with the increase of bandwidth between client and server. Compared to the mainstream analysis software Sante DICOM HEX Viewer, the accuracy rate of P-Viewer software achieved 100%. Conclusion P-Viewer software provides an accurate and reliable cross-platform solution for proton radiotherapy plan analysis and transmission.