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MSPT- Motion Simulator for Proton Therapy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. MSPT- Motion Simulator for Proton Therapy is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
MSPT (Motion Simulator for Proton Therapy) is a research tool to study the impact of motion during the delivery of a proton therapy treatment. The simulations rely on DICOM files: the patient CT image along with a file defining structures in the patient body, the treatment plan and optionally the expected dose distribution. It simulates the spot scanning technique, used in proton therapy, with an analytical beam model. It aims at highlighting the impact of the patient motion during a treatment delivery by computing dose on the moving patient. The main interest of this simulator lies in the ability to render the impact of a predicted patient motion on a prescribed treatment plan. This capability makes it an innovative research tool to evaluate and compare different methods of motion management or mitigation.
MSPT is not intended for clinical use!!!
MSPT author:
Paul Morel
MSPT have been developed with the advice of:
Dongxu Wang, PhD Ryan T Flynn, PhD Edgar Gelover, PhD Daniel Hyer, PhD Guillaume Blin, PhD Stephane Vialette, PhD Xiaodong Wu, PhD This work was supported by the ANR-10-JCJC-0209 - BIRDS - Réseaux biologiques, Radiothérapie et Structures project.
The work on MSPT has been published in the following thesis/papers:
Paul Morel. MSPT : Motion Simulator for Proton Therapy. Université Paris-Est, 2014.
P Morel, R T Flynn, E Gelover, G Blin, S Vialette, X Wu and D Wang. MSPT: an open-source motion simulator for proton therapy, 2015, Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express, Volume 1, Number 3
P Morel, X Wu , G Blin, S Vialette, R T Flynn, D Hyer, D Wang. Spot Weight Adaptation for Moving Target in Spot Scanning Proton Therapy, 2015, Frontiers in Oncology, Volume 5
If you use our work or need to mention it, thank you for citing these references.