OpenREM: Radiation Exposure Monitoring for physicists
Ed McDonagh, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
David Platten, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Dose management in contemporary radiological practice
NEC, Birmingham
OpenREM should harvest all available dose related data
✔ Customisable
✔ Low cost (Computers, people time)
✔ Free (open source, cost free licence)
✔ Documented
✔ Compliant with data protection law
✘ (meaningless) Effective dose calculations
✘ Cumulative dose tracking
✘ Dashboards for referring physicians and justifying radiologists
Solution:
Open source - GPLv3 licence
Hosted at Bitbucket.org in a git repository
Python, Django, pydicom, XlsxWriter, Celery and RabbitMQ
Sources of dose information:
Radiation Dose Structured Reports
- CT
- Fluoroscopy
- Mammography
- Radiography
Mammography images
Radiography images
Philips CT dose summary images
CSV files containing height and weight
In the next release, 0.8 (soon!)
- Integration and visualisation of OpenSkin dose mapping
- Improvements and bug fixes to imports, display and exports
- Reworking of the DICOM query-retrieve code
Future developments
- Integration with openSSDE for water equivalent diameter calculations in CT
- Multi-centre trial of openSSDE underway currently
- Addition of HL7 interface for demographic and procedure updates
- Code contributed and awaiting testing
- Additional dose data sources
- Toshiba CT dose summary images
- Siemens Arcadis Varic fluoroscopy structured report
- Multi-lingual documentation and interface
- German documentation contributed
The website
openrem.org
Have a play with the demo sites
- Release version: demo.openrem.org
- Latest developer version: dev.openrem.org
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The documentation
docs.openrem.org
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