Multimodality Registration for Radiation Oncology 2013

Multimodality Registration for Radiation Oncology 2013 (MMRO-III) registers image sets specifically for Radiation Oncology.

Summary

Transmitting image registration information within the Radiation Oncology domain is important to the process of external beam radiation treatments. Currently, registration can be performed on individual workstations designed for that purpose and planning systems, but the results are not readily transferable between systems, often due either to proprietary or inconsistent implementations. This profile addresses the ability to convey registered data from one system to another for further processing. This profile addresses issues dealing with multiple coordinate systems but does not specifically address the issue of repeatable fused displays. A collection of DICOM objects exists to address the problem. Their use is constrained and clarified to avoid misinterpretation and promote compatibility.

Many newer treatment planning systems allow modalities other than CT to act as the primary image dataset and primary Frame-of-Reference definition. This profile extends MMRO and MMRO-II by allowing other modalities to define the primary FoR.

Benefits

• Defines how DICOM objects for spatial registration and the images themselves are created, stored, queried, retrieved, processed and displayed
• Allows multiple systems to use a single Spatial Registration Object, improving consistency between systems for region-of-interest and radiation dose display
• Verifies the consistency and correctness of patient orientation displays
• Improves safety by specifying images within a Frame of Reference that are associated with the Frame of Reference Definition
• Allows any supported image modality (CT, MR, PET) to define the primary Frame-of-Reference

Details

This Integration Profile specifies how images, RT Structure Sets, RT Doses, and associated spatial registration information can be exchanged, stored, processed and displayed. For a display workstation, it is essential that a workstation correctly identifies the corresponding image sets, matches data from single-slice and multi-slice datasets, matches coordinate systems, and performs spatial translations. The use of relevant DICOM objects (Spatial Registration) is clarified and constrained in order to avoid misinterpretation.

Image Registration Integration Profile focuses on content for image registration and does not define a registration workflow. Such workflow could be managed by using mechanisms described in the Post-Processing Workflow Integration Profile. The Image Registration Integration Profile currently only handles rigid registration. The intention is to add deformable registration as an extension to the Profile in the future.

The Image Registration Profile does not specify the use of quantification methods for the image data that is created or displayed. In particular interoperability for PET Standard Uptake Values (SUV) is considered a relevant future work item for IHE. Note that vendors may wish to provide SUV capability even though not required under this Profile.

NOTE: This profile supersedes the MMRO and MMRO-II profiles. It corrects MMRO for changes made in the DICOM Spatial Registration Object in 2010. In addition, it requires that images known to be consistent with a Frame-of-Reference in an SRO be listed. This allows a user to know that the SRO referenced can be trusted with these specific images. It allows MR or PET to define the primary Frame-of-Reference, removing the limitation of only CT as the primary FoR in MMRO and MMRO-II.

Systems Affected

• Radiation Oncology PACS
• Treatment Planning Systems
• CT Simulation Systems

Actors and Transactions:

Specification

Profile Status: Draft

Testing Status: Draft - May be tested at a future IHE-RO Connectathon (Fall, 2014)

Documents: IHE Radiation Oncology Technical Framework:

• MMRO-III Supplement - Chapter 6

Underlying Standards:

• DICOM

See Also

Related Profiles

• Basic Radiation Therapy Objects (BRTO) Provides base requirements for Structure Set and RT Plan Objects.
• Multimodality Registration for Radiation Oncology (MMRO) Provides all transactions used in this profile except those associated with an SRO object.
• Multimodality Registration for Radiation Oncology 2012 (MMRO-II) Previous MMRO-xx profile with extensions

Consumer Information

• The MMRO-III FAQ answers typical questions about what the Profile does.
• The MMRO-III Purchasing describes considerations when purchasing equipment to deploy this Profile.

Implementer Information

• The MMRO-III Implementation provides additional information about implementing this Profile in software.

This page is based on the Profile Template