title: eIMRT: 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 with Internet access to three different services: Monte Carlo optimization of treatment plans, CRT & IMRT treatment optimization, and a database of relevant radiation treatments/clinical cases. These services are accessible through a user-friendly and platform independent web page. Its flexible and scalable design focuses on providing the final users with services rather than a collection of software pieces. All input and output data (CT, contours, treatment plans and dose distributions) are handled using the DICOM format. The design, implementation, and support 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. The eIMRT platform is currently hosted by the Galician Supercomputing Center (CESGA) and may be accessible upon request (there is a demo version at http://eimrt.cesga.es:8080/eIMRT2/demo; request access in http://eimrt.cesga.es/signup.html). This paper describes all aspects of the eIMRT algorithms in depth, its user interface, and its services. Due to the flexible design of the platform, it has numerous applications including the intercenter comparison of treatment planning, the quality assurance of radiation treatments, the design and implementation of new approaches to certain types of treatments, and the sharing of information on radiation treatment techniques. In addition, the web platform and software tools developed for treatment verification and optimization have a modular design that allows the user to extend them with new algorithms. This software is not a commercial product. It is the result of the collaborative effort of different public research institutions and is planned to be distributed as an open source project. In this way, it will be available to any user; new releases will be generated with the new implemented codes or upgrades.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fílsica de Partículas, Facultade de Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pena
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fílsica de Partículas, Facultade de Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Diego M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: González-Castaño
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fílsica de Partículas, Facultade de Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Faustino
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Fílsica de Partículas, Facultade de Física, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Araceli
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gago-Arias
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enxeñería Telemática, Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñería das Telecomunicacións, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: González-Castaño
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enxeñería Telemática, Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñería das Telecomunicacións, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Silva
authors.affiliation: Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Andrés
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.affiliation: Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mouriño
authors.affiliation: Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pombar
authors.affiliation: Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sánchez
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
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