Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Radiation therapy requires a patient-centered information system to integrate all the information between different systems and equipments, to make the lossless transmission of the radiation data.
OBJECTIVE: To solve the non-normalized data access issues in the field of radiotherapy by using DICOM-radiation therapy standard.
METHODS: The paper designed a communication model for a DICOM-radiation therapy-based radiation therapy information system. This model, which adds the support for DICOM-radiation therapy objects was constituted of four modules: client module, TCP/IP interface module, correlation module and service class module, they all can send, receive, query and retrieve information. In addition, the system also contained the support for DICOM-radiation therapy objects.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: DICOM-radiation therapy data transmission between DICOMan software and dcm4chePACS system were tested on this model. The results show that this model can transmit data losslessly and exchange and share radiation-related information effectively.