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SU‐E‐T‐570: Improvement to the Histogram Analysis in Radiation Therapy (HART): An Open Source Software System for the Multi‐Dimensional Dose‐ Volume Histogram Analysis in Digital Image Communication in Medicine ‐ Radiation Therapy (DICOM‐RT) Treatment Plans
Author(s) -
Pyakuryal A,
Bacchus I,
Jang S,
Narayanasamy G,
Gopalakrishnan M,
Pokhrel D,
Luo J,
Sathiaseelan V,
Mittal B
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.4735659
Subject(s) - dicom , histogram , software , dose volume histogram , computer science , radiation treatment planning , radiation therapy , medical imaging , nuclear medicine , medical physics , mathematics , data mining , artificial intelligence , medicine , image (mathematics) , programming language , radiology
Histogram Analysis in Radiation Therapy (HART) is an efficient and accurate dose-volume histogram (DVH) computational tool in radiotherapy research. Several applications of the program have been presented previously (J Appl Clin Med Phys 11(1): 3013, 2010; Med Phys 38(6), p.3678, 2011) for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) users. The program has been further developed to incorporate various types of DVH analysis features to support the research using DICOM-RT plans. The main objective of this work was to present the improvement and compatibility of the program for the DICOM-RT plans.