Tutorial: Overview of Patient Modules

Figure 1. Patient module and interactive patient viewer. The tabs explained below can be activated from the vertical tab collection on the left of the viewer.

Browse

The Browse tab is where you go to do the following:

• See the DICOM objects you have uploaded for this patient, along with their associations (and, if necessary, to manually re-associate the DICOM objects).
• Select which data objects to display and toggle
• Edit or delete the DICOM objects.
• Interact with (navigate, zoom, pan, window/level) the 3-plane viewer.

Structures

The Structures tab is where you go to do the following:

• Edit the structure set by creating new, or editing existing, anatomical contours.
• Turn structure display on or off, individually or all together.
• Interact with (navigate, zoom, pan, window/level) the 3-plane viewer.

Plan

The Plan tab is where you go to do the following:

• View the RT Plan summary information.
• View the RT Plan's beam or brachy source spreadsheet, either in compact (summary) or expanded (comprehensive) form.
• Interact with (navigate, zoom, pan, window/level) the 3-plane viewer.

Dose

The Dose tab is where you go to do the following:

• Customize/set the normalization dose.
• Customize the isodose levels viewed, along with the dose colorwash opacity.
• Interact with (navigate, zoom, pan, window/level) the 3-plane viewer.

DVH

The DVH tab is where you go to do the following:

• Turn DVH curve display on or off by structure name.
• View a spreadsheet of min, max, and mean dose (Gy) and structure volume (cc).
• Set DVH curve type from cumulative (%) vs. dose, cumulative (cc) vs. dose, or differential (cc) vs. dose.
• Download raw DVH data.

Scorecards

The Scorecards tab is where you go to do the following:

• Load custom templates of important metrics to extract and analyze vs. their respective objectives.
• Create new sets of metrics and objectives.
• Save new sets of metrics and objectives as templates, to re-use for any workspace or across all workspaces (if you have "All Workspaces" permissions).
• Set DVH curve type from cumulative (%) vs. dose, cumulative (cc) vs. dose, or differential (cc) vs. dose.
• Download the raw data from a scorecard spreadsheet.

Collections

The Collections tab is where you go to do the following:

• See which collection(s) the patient is currently assigned to.
• Assign/unassign a patient to/from existing collections.