Development of the software package VirtualDose-IR for evaluating radiation doses to patients during interventional procedure

VernacularTitle:介入治疗患者辐射剂量评估软件包VirtualDose-IR 的开发
Author: Mang FENG ; Wanli HUO ; Yifei PI ; Zhuang XIONG ; Yiming GAO ; Zhi CHEN ; Xie XU
Keywords: Interventional radiology; Monte Carlo; Radiation dose; Software as a Service ( SaaS)
From: Chinese Journal of Radiological Medicine and Protection 2017;37(1):56-61
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To develop an online organ doses reporting software VirtualDose-IR, which can compute the radiation doses and provide an easy access to evaluation and control of patients ′radiation doses.Methods Monte Carlo method was applied to simulating various interventional radiology ( IR) processes , which included various parameters such as different patient models at different ages and with different weights , different projection angles and regions of interest , and other parameters .All of the dose data was acquired and then integrated into a database , and displayed with hyper text markup language (HTML), so only a web browser was necessary for users .Results A web-based software that reports organ doses for patients under IR progress was developed .The organ doses assessed with VirtualDose-IR were compared with other experiment and simulation data , and the results were basically consistent with each other .Conclusions VirtualDose-IR is a easy and efficient method to assess patients′radiation doses of IR.