- Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
- Center for Advanced Computed Tomography Imaging Services
- Computational Breast Imaging Group
- Cardiovascular Research Group
- Center for Functional Neuroimaging
- Center for Translational Imaging Informatics
- Laboratory of Molecular Imaging
- Laboratory for Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Lab for Structural NMR Imaging
- Molecular Imaging Chemistry Lab
- Molecular Imaging of Cardiovascular Diseases
- Medical Informatics Group
- Medical Image Processing Group
- Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical Imaging
- Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation Group
- PET Center
- Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory
- RADCORE
- RADIANCE
- Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry Section
- Small Animal Imaging Facility
- Section for Biomedical Image Analysis
- Ultrasound Research Laboratory
- X-ray Physics Lab
Radiation Dose Intelligent Analytics for CT Examinations
RADIANCE is an open-source software pipeline designed to automatically extract and archive CT dose-related parameters from the dose sheets produced by CT scanners. It was designed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA by a team of radiologists interested in dose monitoring and quality assurance. The power of RADIANCE is its ability to extract information from dose sheets produced by legacy CT scanners that cannot generate DICOM Dose SR structured reports. An overview of RADIANCE can be found in the November 2010 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
What does RADIANCE provide?
- Small footprint; a set of scripts that can run on a Windows machine
- Support for four major CT vendors: Siemens, GE, Toshiba and Philips
- Automated extraction of parameters from CT dose sheets and storage in a relational database
- Customizable pipeline for scheduled processing of CT dose sheets
- Dashboard analytics
- Ability to parse as well as generate RDSRs (radiation dose structured reports)
How do I get RADIANCE?
If you are interested in obtaining a copy, please fill out this form to register and you will be able to download RADIANCE, the RADIANCE dashboard and the installation and users' guides.
How do I install and run RADIANCE?
To install RADIANCE, unzip the radiance.zip file under the htdocs/ folder of your web server and follow the directions provided. In order to run RADIANCE, you will need the following:
- A web server running on Windows that supports PHP and MySQL, such as XAMPP
- A DICOM operation to send your CT dose sheets to your RADIANCE PC
- An installation guide and a user's guide/FAQ are available online
Future releases of RADIANCE will include:
- Scorecard generation for imaging personnel, radiologists and non-radiologist physicians
- Automatic PACS query/retrieve pipeline for obtaining dose sheets
- New dashboard features
- Support for Linux and Mac OS X servers
Questions?
Please email Dr. Tessa Cook (tessa.cook@uphs.upenn.edu) of the RADIANCE development team for more information. You can also visit the RADIANCE website, which links to RADIANCE-related presentations as well as frequently asked questions.
