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@ARTICLE{Wieser:128231,
author = {H.-P. Wieser$^*$ and E. Cisternas$^*$ and N. Wahl$^*$ and
S. Ulrich$^*$ and A. Stadler$^*$ and H. Mescher$^*$ and
L.-R. Müller$^*$ and T. Klinge$^*$ and H. Gabrys$^*$ and L.
N. Burigo$^*$ and A. Mairani and S. Ecker and B. Ackermann
and M. Ellerbrock and K. Parodi and O. Jäkel$^*$ and M.
Bangert$^*$},
title = {{D}evelopment of the open-source dose calculation and
optimization toolkit mat{R}ad.},
journal = {Medical physics},
volume = {44},
number = {6},
issn = {0094-2405},
address = {New York, NY},
reportid = {DKFZ-2017-04248},
pages = {2556 - 2568},
year = {2017},
abstract = {We report on the development of the open-source
cross-platform radiation treatment planning toolkit matRad
and its comparison against validated treatment planning
systems. The toolkit enables three-dimensional
intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment planning for
photons, scanned protons and scanned carbon ions.matRad is
entirely written in Matlab and is freely available online.
It re-implements well-established algorithms employing a
modular and sequential software design to model the entire
treatment planning workflow. It comprises core
functionalities to import DICOM data, to calculate and
optimize dose as well as a graphical user interface for
visualization. matRad dose calculation algorithms (for
carbon ions this also includes the computation of the
relative biological effect) are compared against dose
calculation results originating from clinically approved
treatment planning systems.We observe three-dimensional
γ-analysis pass rates ≥ $99.67\%$ for all three radiation
modalities utilizing a distance to agreement of 2 mm and a
dose difference criterion of $2\%.$ The computational
efficiency of matRad is evaluated in a treatment planning
study considering three different treatment scenarios for
every radiation modality. For photons, we measure total run
times of 145 s-1260 s for dose calculation and fluence
optimization combined considering 4-72 beam orientations and
2608-13597 beamlets. For charged particles, we measure total
run times of 63 s-993 s for dose calculation and fluence
optimization combined considering 9963-45574 pencil beams.
Using a CT and dose grid resolution of 0.3 cm(3) requires a
memory consumption of 1.59 GB-9.07 GB and 0.29 GB-17.94 GB
for photons and charged particles, respectively.The
dosimetric accuracy, computational performance and
open-source character of matRad encourages a future
application of matRad for both educational and research
purposes.},
cin = {E040 / E210},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E040-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)E210-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Imaging and radiooncology (POF3-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:28370020},
doi = {10.1002/mp.12251},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/128231},
}