RADIATION ONCOLOGY PLANNING SYSTEM (ROPS)

TPS FEATURES

FDA cleared in 1988 (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf/K972816.pdf)

• 3D Conformal Radiotherapy Planning System for Cobalt -60 Therapy Machine equipped with MLC

• Automatic Time calculation for Cobalt-60 with decay corrections.

• Observer’s Eye View- display of surface/contours of ROI, regular/irregular beams, wedges, dose matrix, isocenter, calculation and fiducial points

• 3D Graphics visualization ( using Licensed proprietary AVS Inc. graphics package) with 3D beams, wedges, patient surface, targets, inner structures, isodose clouds, rotatable, zoomable with mouse interaction

• Beam's Eye View and Observers Eye View

• DICOM 3 CT input

• Pre-planning verification of CT images displaying Patient Name, slice number, table position, contrast adjustment

• CT manipulations window/level global settings

• CT scan manipulation with slice selection, table removal, image flip, byte swap features

• Contouring tools – rubber band, cut/paste, copy, move

• Automatic contouring tools for finding boundary of skin, lung, spinal cord etc.

• Isocenter relative to laser localization coordinates ready for ASCII export

• Multiple isocenter

• Auto Block Outline with specified Margin

• Interactive MLC Planning with auto fitting of leaves to beam port, leaf-in, leaf-out, leaf-center, area-optimize, collimator optimization, manual leaf adjustment