VirtualDose-IR: A cloud-based software for reporting organ doses in interventional radiology.

VirtualDose-IR: A cloud-based software for reporting organ doses in interventional radiology. Phys Med Biol. 2019 Mar 01;: Authors: Huo W, Pi Y, Feng M, Qi Y, Gao Y, Caracappa PF, Chen Z, Xu XG Abstract A cloud-based software, VirtualDose-IR, designed to report organ doses and effective doses for a diverse patient population from interventional radiology (IR) procedures has been developed and tested. This software is based on a comprehensive database of Monte Carlo-generated organ dose built with a set of 21 anatomically realistic patient phantoms. The patient types included in this database are both male and female people with different ages reflecting reference adults, obese people with different BMIs and pregnant women at different gestational stages. Selectable parameters such as patient type, tube voltage, filtration thickness, beam direction, field size, and irradiation site are also considered in VirtualDose-IR. The software has been implemented using the 'software as a service (SaaS)' delivery concept permitting simultaneous multi-user, multi-platform access without requiring locally installed specialty software. The patient doses resulting from different target sites, beam qualities, beam directions, and patient populations were reported using the VirtualDose-IR system. The organ dose results were compared with measurement data previously reported in the literature. The doses to organs that were located within the irradiatio...
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