DICOM-RT and DICOM RT-ION for Radiotherapy / Radiation Onc

Hey Andreas,
Some questions, requests, and offer to help...

I know that K-PACS can download DICOM-RT objects, like RT-STRUCTS, but currently can not view them so we can not see for example contours on the images.

(1) What kind of help would you need to be able to add viewing for RT objects in the K-PACS viewer? I may be able to help. It would be awesome to view RT stuff with the images.

(2) Query filters - can more presentation syntax be added specific to RT?

(3) New DICOM-RT-ION suppliment to DICOM Protocol was recently ratified. This is specific to Radiotherapy Treatment using Protons. Will you be adding support for RT-ION objects so they can also be downloaded into K-PACS? For example, we have RT-Plan for traditional radiation, and RT-ION-PlAN for new treament plans made with proton treatment therapy software.

Thanks - love your K-PACs,
Kim

Andreas,

I can make rt object samples - do I email or ftp? What is your email or ftp method?

Best,
Kim

Andreas,

I am working on samples next week. Also, I am going to send a method you can use to do the overlay of the RTSTRUCT with the images since someone I work with knows how to do that and has tips.

Meanwhile - here is a very useful suggestion for K-PACS that would very helpful to Radiation Oncology usage. Currently, when we download RT objects with K-PACS, a separate folder is created for the RT objects and CT files even though the RT objects are associated with the CT study and we have no need for them to be separate - as a matter of fact this makes it very hard to use them. For Rad/Onc it's most convenient not to separate RT objects and keep them in same directory/folder that all the associated CTs are in.

Currently if we download a bunch, it's hard to know which RT objects go with which CTs and from a workflow point of view - we always need them together with CTs and believe Rad/Onc folks in general would prefer it that way.

Thanks!
Kim