title: [DICOM in radiotherapy].
abstract: Digital Image Communication in Medicine (DICOM) defines a standard method to store and transmit digital medical image information, in which there is a piece of implemented protocol named DICOM-RT that specially addresses both the transmission of radiation therapy image data and the ancillary data. In this paper, we firstly introduce the DICOM-RT with the emphases on its components, relationship with radiotherapy and how to produce the DICOM-RT object that refer to some certain radiotherapy information. Then we expatiate on the impact that benefits from applying DICOM-RT to radiotherapy, with an aid to accelerate its application in China.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University.
authors.forename: Wen-xue
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Li-min
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000592:standards; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D011881:Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed