@misc{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00067708,
 author = {Ito, Hiroko and 伊藤 浩子},
 month = {May},
 note = {A database system of carbon ion therapy to be used for the analysis of planning data as well as treatment records has been designed and implemented. This database will give investigators access to the imaging and character data since the start of the clinical trials June 1994. 
A schematic diagram of the system is shown in Fig.1. The database is created on an Oracle relational database management system running on a Sun workstation. We implemented a DICOM v3.0 (1) including radiotherapy extensions. The MergeCom Toolkit (Merge Technologies Inc., Milwaukee, U.S.A.) was used. Data were mapped to DICOM standard objects; however, limited numbers of private attributes were introduced for ion therapy specific objects since ion therapy was not supported yet.
All the saved planning data and treatment records of 1200 patients have been loaded into the database with a software tool. In routine use, planning data and treatment records saved in storage disks are loaded into the database on-line every night. Besides this, GUI tools used to load data manually as well as to edit loaded data are prepared.
User can access database with standard WWW browser to search and retrieve information. A DICOM RT viewer has been developed to view and retrieve RT images, dose distributions and structure set. The system has been fully tested.},
 title = {THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A HEAVY ION THERAPY DATABASE},
 year = {2002}
}