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A Web Application for GPU-Based Monte Carlo IMRT/VMAT QA with Delivered Dose Verification

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M Folkerts

M Folkerts1,2*, Y Graves2 , Z Tian1 , X Gu1 , X Jia1 , S Jiang1 , (1) The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr, Dallas, TX, (2) University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Presentations

SU-E-T-29 Sunday 3:00PM - 6:00PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Purpose: To enable an existing web application for GPU-based Monte Carlo (MC) 3D dosimetry quality assurance (QA) to compute "delivered dose" from linac logfile data.

Methods: We added significant features to an IMRT/VMAT QA web application which is based on existing technologies (HTML5, Python, and Django). This tool interfaces with python, c-code libraries, and command line-based GPU applications to perform a MC-based IMRT/VMAT QA. The web app automates many complicated aspects of interfacing clinical DICOM and logfile data with cutting-edge GPU software to run a MC dose calculation. The resultant web app is powerful, easy to use, and is able to re-compute both plan dose (from DICOM data) and delivered dose (from logfile data). Both dynalog and trajectorylog file formats are supported. Users upload zipped DICOM RP, CT, and RD data and set the expected statistic uncertainty for the MC dose calculation. A 3D gamma index map, 3D dose distribution, gamma histogram, dosimetric statistics, and DVH curves are displayed to the user. Additional the user may upload the delivery logfile data from the linac to compute a "delivered dose" calculation and corresponding gamma tests. A comprehensive PDF QA report summarizing the results can also be downloaded.

Results: We successfully improved a web app for a GPU-based QA tool that consists of logfile parcing, fluence map generation, CT image processing, GPU based MC dose calculation, gamma index calculation, and DVH calculation. The result is an IMRT and VMAT QA tool that conducts an independent dose calculation for a given treatment plan and delivery log file. The system takes both DICOM data and logfile data to compute plan dose and delivered dose respectively.

Conclusion: We sucessfully improved a GPU-based MC QA tool to allow for logfile dose calculation. The high efficiency and accessibility will greatly facilitate IMRT and VMAT QA.


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