Development of a Compared Software for Automatically Generated DVH in Eclipse TPS

VernacularTitle:Eclipse计划系统DVH自动生成比较软件开发
Author: Zhao XIE ¹ ; Kelin LUO ; Lian ZOU ; Jinyou HU
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1. 四川省人民医院肿瘤中心
Keywords: Eclipse; Automatic; C#; AutoHotkey; DVH
From: Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation 2016;40(2):140-142
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective This study is to automaticaly calculatethe dose volume histogram(DVH) for the treatment plan, then to compare it with requirements of doctor's prescriptions.Methods The scripting language Autohotkey and programming language C# were used to develop a compared software for automatically generated DVH in Eclipse TPS. This software is named Show Dose Volume Histogram (ShowDVH), which is composed of prescription documents generation, operation functions of DVH, software visualization and DVH compared report generation.Results Ten cases in different cancers have been separately selected, in Eclipse TPS 11.0 ShowDVH could not only automaticaly generate DVH reports but also accurately determine whether treatment plans meet the requirements of doctor’s prescriptions, then reports gave direction for setting optimization parameters of intensity modulated radiated therapy. Conclusions The ShowDVH is an user-friendly and powerful software, and can automaticaly generated compared DVH reports fast in Eclipse TPS 11.0. With the help of ShowDVH, it greatly saves plan designing time and improves working effi ciency of radiation therapy physicists.