Treatment Planning - Plan Content

Summary

This integration profile involves the exchange of RT Plan information between treatment planning systems and between treatment planning systems and treatment management systems.

Benefits

This profile aims to reduce ambiguity in re-planning and delivering planning information with fidelity and consistency to the treatment management system in anticipation of transfer to a treatment delivery system.

Details

This profile addresses a broad variety of “Beam Techniques” that exist in Radiation Therapy. Rather than define actors that had broad involvement in many optional transactions, a large number of actors were defined which have specific mandatory/required transactions and a small number of optional transactions related to beam modifiers. The actors are either producers or consumers of a DICOM RT Plan.

Systems Affected

• Treatment Planning Systems will implement one or more of the “producer” actors and / or the "consumer" actors
  • The actors implemented will depend on the intended functionality
  • If a Treatment Planning System will read other Planning System plans, then it should implement the behavior of the intended "consumer"
• Oncology Information Systems, Oncology Information Management, or Electronic Medical Record for Oncology will implement many "consumer" actors i.e., consume many Beam Techniques.
• Other systems such as QA Systems may implement these beam consumer actors as well.

Actors & Transactions:

• Basic Static Beam Storage
• Basic Static Beam Retrieval
• Basic Static MLC Beam Storage
• Basic Static MLC Beam Retrieval
• Arc Beam Storage
• Arc Beam Retrieval
• MLC Fixed Aperture Arc Beam Storage
• MLC Fixed Aperture Arc Beam Retrieval
• MLC Variable Aperture Arc Beam Storage
• MLC Variable Aperture Arc Beam Retrieval
• Hard Wedge Beam Storage
• Hard Wedge Beam Retrieval
• Virtual Wedge Beam Storage
• Virtual Wedge Beam Retrieval
• Motorized Wedge Beam Storage
• Motorized Wedge Beam Retrieval
• Static Electron Beam Storage
• Static Electron Beam Retrieval
• Step & Shoot Beam Storage
• Step & Shoot Beam Retrieval
• Sliding Window Beam Storage
• Sliding Window Beam Retrieval
• IMAT/VMAT Beam Storage
• IMAT/VMAT Beam Retrieval
• Photon Applicator Beam Storage
• Photon Applicator Beam Retrieval
• Photon Applicator Arc Beam Storage
• Photon Applicator Arc Beam Retrieval

Specification

Profile Status: Final Text (Technical Framework integration is underway) Underlying Standards:

• DICOM

See Also

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Related Profiles

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• Reporting Workflow [RWF] may use Evidence Documents as inputs to the reporting process.
• Simple Image & Numeric Reports [SINR] may include data copied from Evidence Documents.
• Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Imaging [XDS-I] can be used to share Evidence Documents between sites over a network.
• Portable Data for Imaging [PDI] can store Evidence Documents on media such as CDs.
• Import Reconciliation Workflow [IRWF] can fix patient ids, etc. of Evidence Documents when importing.

Consumer Information

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