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A multicentric IT platform for storage and sharing of imaging-based radiation dosimetric data

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Abstract

Purpose

The MEDIRAD project is about the effects of low radiation dose in the context of medical procedures. The goal of the work is to develop an informatics service that will provide the researchers of the MEDIRAD project with a platform to share acquired images, along with the associated dosimetric data pertaining to the radiation resulting from the procedure.

Methods

The authors designed a system architecture to manage image data and dosimetric data in an integrated way. DICOM and non-DICOM data are stored in separated repositories, and the link between the two is provided through a semantic database, i.e., a database whose information schema in aligned with an ontology.

Results

The system currently supports CT, PET, SPECT, and NM images as well as dose reports. Currently, two workflows for non-DICOM data generated from dosimetric calculations have been taken into account, one concerning Monte Carlo-based calculation of organ doses in Chest CT, and the other estimation of doses in nontarget organs in 131I targeted radionuclide therapy of the thyroid.

Conclusion

The system is currently deployed, thus providing access to image and related dosimetric data to all MEDIRAD users. The software was designed in such a way that it can be reused to support similar needs in other projects.

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Acknowledgements

This work received support from the European Commission (EURATOM NFRP-2016-2017): MEDIRAD Project, Grant Agreement No 755523).

Funding

This project has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 under Grant Agreement No 755523. This project has received funding from the OsiriX Foundation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

    Joël Spaltenstein & Gérôme Pasquier

  2. Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nicolas van Dooren & Osman Ratib

  3. University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nicolas Roduit

  4. Universite de Rennes 1, Inserm, Rennes, France

    Marine Brenet & Bernard Gibaud

  5. Institute of Research and Technology b<>com, Rennes, France

    Guillaume Pasquier

  6. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Peter Mildenberger

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Spaltenstein, J., van Dooren, N., Pasquier, G. et al. A multicentric IT platform for storage and sharing of imaging-based radiation dosimetric data. Int J CARS 15, 1639–1643 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-020-02179-y

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