Category: Brachytherapy
Author’s Name: Nathan Childress
Homepage: www.marcova.com
Published: Jun 12, 2006
HDR automatic secondary calculation program
This program automatically reads a text file with HDR dwell positions and calculates the dose to a user-specified point. It currently only reads Varian BrachyVision text files, but if I receive examples of other systems’ output I can incorporate them. It generates an Excel sheet with the dose comparison data for the user to print and sign. The total time for one handcalc is less than 30 seconds using this program.
To use HDR HandCalc with BrachyVision 10:
You have to edit the forms.dat file on the BrachyVision computer.
The path is found by looking in brachy under Help and about and system info. Look until you find the title that says: “Directories and Paths” then look under “report template directory” This is the path to forms.dat. Then you can edit forms.dat with notepad and remove the “#†from the last 4 lines that have the “#†in front of it.
You must download this 100 MB MATLAB standalone program, otherwise the program will not be able to run successfully.