Radiation Planning Assistant - A Web-based Tool to Support High-quality Radiotherapy in Clinics with Limited Resources

Laurence Edward Court; Ajay Aggarwal; Hester Burger; Carlos Cardenas; Christine Chung; Raphael Douglas; Monique du Toit; Anuja Jhingran; Raymond Mumme; Sikudhani Muya; Komeela Naidoo; Jerry Ndumbalo; Tucker Netherton; Callistus Nguyen; Adenike Olanrewaju; Jeannette Parkes; Willie Shaw; Christoph Trauernicht; Melody Xu; Jinzhong Yang; Lifei Zhang; Hannah Simonds; Beth M. Beadle

doi:10.3791/65504

Radiation Planning Assistant - A Web-based Tool to Support High-quality Radiotherapy in Clinics with Limited Resources

Laurence Edward Court, Ajay Aggarwal, Hester Burger, Carlos Cardenas, Christine Chung, Raphael Douglas, Monique du Toit, Anuja Jhingran, Raymond Mumme, Sikudhani Muya, Komeela Naidoo, Jerry Ndumbalo, Tucker Netherton, Callistus Nguyen, Adenike Olanrewaju, Jeannette Parkes, Willie Shaw, Christoph Trauernicht, Melody Xu, Jinzhong YangLifei Zhang, Hannah Simonds, Beth M. Beadle

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Access to radiotherapy worldwide is limited. The Radiation Planning Assistant (RPA) is a fully automated, web-based tool that is being developed to offer fully automated radiotherapy treatment planning tools to clinics with limited resources. The goal is to help clinical teams scale their efforts, thus reaching more patients with cancer. The user connects to the RPA via a webpage, completes a Service Request (prescription and information about the radiotherapy targets), and uploads the patient's CT image set. The RPA offers two approaches to automated planning. In one-step planning, the system uses the Service Request and CT scan to automatically generate the necessary contours and treatment plan. In two-step planning, the user reviews and edits the automatically generated contours before the RPA continues to generate a volume-modulated arc therapy plan. The final plan is downloaded from the RPA website and imported into the user's local treatment planning system, where the dose is recalculated for the locally commissioned linac; if necessary, the plan is edited prior to approval for clinical use.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e65504
Journal	Journal of Visualized Experiments
Volume	2023
Issue number	200
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3791/65504
State	Published - Oct 2023

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General Neuroscience
General Chemical Engineering
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Immunology and Microbiology

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Court, L. E., Aggarwal, A., Burger, H., Cardenas, C., Chung, C., Douglas, R., du Toit, M., Jhingran, A., Mumme, R., Muya, S., Naidoo, K., Ndumbalo, J., Netherton, T., Nguyen, C., Olanrewaju, A., Parkes, J., Shaw, W., Trauernicht, C., Xu, M., ... Beadle, B. M. (2023). Radiation Planning Assistant - A Web-based Tool to Support High-quality Radiotherapy in Clinics with Limited Resources. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2023(200), Article e65504. https://doi.org/10.3791/65504

Court, LE, Aggarwal, A, Burger, H, Cardenas, C, Chung, C, Douglas, R, du Toit, M, Jhingran, A, Mumme, R, Muya, S, Naidoo, K, Ndumbalo, J, Netherton, T , Nguyen, C, Olanrewaju, A, Parkes, J, Shaw, W, Trauernicht, C, Xu, M, Yang, J, Zhang, L, Simonds, H & Beadle, BM 2023, 'Radiation Planning Assistant - A Web-based Tool to Support High-quality Radiotherapy in Clinics with Limited Resources', Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol. 2023, no. 200, e65504. https://doi.org/10.3791/65504

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