@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00043333,
 author = {Ito, Hiroko and Mizoe, Junetsu and 伊藤 浩子 and 溝江 純悦},
 journal = {Journal of the Japanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {We have developed the exchange system of treatment planning data sets between multiple radiotherapy treatment planning systems (TPSs) used in our institution: a specially developed TPS for carbon ion therapy, and two commercial TPSs. The system allows mutual uses of software utilities for the carbon ion treatment planning and its analyses. Data sets including tumor and treatment target volumes, anatomical structure contours, dose distributions are exchanged through RTOG data exchange format files. The implementation issues such as the coordinate matching to CT scan images as well as the import of dose distribution are described. Several test runs showed that the coordinates of the contours and dose distributions were unaltered within a pixel size of CT image after the exchange. The system has proven to be useful in both clinical and research purpose such as image fusion and comparison of dose distributions in carbon ion treatment planning. It is also used to convert treatment planning data sets to and from DICOM RT information objects.},
 pages = {75--79},
 title = {The Exchange of Treatment Planning Data Using RTOG Data Exchange Format},
 volume = {15},
 year = {2003}
}