Introducing the Voxel Interactive Contour Tool for Online Radiation Intensity Analytics (VICTORIA)

TL;DR

VICTORIA is a free, web-based tool for visualizing and comparing radiation dose distributions with anatomy, addressing accessibility and security issues of existing viewers, especially useful in resource-limited settings.

Contribution

This paper introduces VICTORIA, an open-source, web-based radiation dose visualization tool that is accessible, secure, and suitable for researchers and patients, filling a gap in existing software.

Findings

Provides a secure, web-based alternative to expensive DICOM viewers

Supports visualization of EGSnrc, DICOM CT, and RT Dose files

Accessible to users in low- and middle-income countries

Abstract

In this paper, the Voxel Interactive Contour Tool for Online Radiation Intensity Analytics (VICTORIA) web viewer is presented as a solution to the issue of inaccessible, expensive, and insecure Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) and Monte Carlo (MC) dose viewers. VICTORIA is a tool for the visualization and comparison of dose distributions with underlying anatomy that is accessible, free, designed with security in mind, and available on the web. The code is open-source and under the GNU General Public License, and it can be found at the EGSnrc Github repo in the DICOM-viewer branch. The viewer should be useful for researchers using EGSnrc file types .egsphant and .3ddose from the EGSnrc toolkit, patients who want a simple tool to view files, or researchers using DICOM Computed Tomography (CT) and DICOM Radiotherapy (RT) Dose files in low- or middle-income countries without access to treatment planning systems.