SlicerRT: Radiation therapy research toolkit for 3D Slicer

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 6332-6338

  Pinter, Csaba ^a   Lasso, Andras ^a   Wang, An ^b   Jaffray, David ^b   Fichtinger, Gabor ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D Slicer; DICOM RT; dose comparison; dose volume histogram; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPEN SYSTEMS; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

3-D SLICER; ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; APPLICATION PLATFORMS; DICOM-RT; DOSE COMPARISON; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; FLEXIBLE APPLICATIONS; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 84867308901     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4754659     Document Type: Article

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