E-IMRT: A web platform for the verification and optimization of radiation treatment plans

Abstract

The eIMRT platform is a remote distributed computing tool that provides users Internet access to three different services: Monte Carlo verification of treatment plans, CRT & IMRT treatment optimization and a database of relevant radiation treatments/clinical cases. These services are accesible through an user-friendly and platform independent web page, where the design and implementation of the verification and optimization algorithms are hidden to the user. This allows a unified, robust handling of the software and hardware that enables these computation-intensive services. All input and output data (computed tomography, CT, contours, treatment plans and dose distributions) are handled using the extended DICOM format and the patients confidentiality is assured by the anonymization of all the data by the platform previous to submission to the server. The eIMRT platform is currently hosted by the Galician Supercomputing center and may be accessible upon request (there is a demo at http://eimrt.cesga.es:8080/eIMRT2/demo, request access to eimrt@cesga.es if necessary). © 2009 Springer-Verlag.