RSICC CODE PACKAGE CCC-729

 

1.  NAME AND TITLE

SERA-1C0:        Simulation Environment for Radiotherapy Applications.

 

2.  CONTRIBUTOR

Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho.

 

3.  CODING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER

C (70%) and Fortran (30%); PC running Linux and Sun running Solaris (C00729MNYCP00).

 

4.  NATURE OF PROBLEM SOLVED

The Simulation Environment for Radiotherapy Applications (SERA) software program was developed for boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT) patient treatment planning by researchers at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) and students and faculty at Montana State University (MSU) Computer Science Department. This is the first release through RSICC, but it is the final release of the Version 1 CO program.

SERA has a flexible, user-friendly GUI for all modules. It allows the use of CT, MRI, or PET image data. Unique neutron transport geometry provides rapid Monte Carlo solutions. Geometric modeling fidelity is equivalent to image resolution

 

5.  METHOD OF SOLUTION

SERA is a suite of command line or interactively launched software modules, including graphical, geometric reconstruction, and execution interface modules for developing BNCT treatment plans. The program allows the user to develop geometric models of the patient as derived from Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images, perform dose computation for these geometric models, and display the computed doses on overlays of the original images as three dimensional representations. A three-dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transport model, seraMC, developed at INL, is used to calculate the complex radiation fields present in BNCT treatment.

 

6.  RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS

SERA is limited to external neutron beam applications only. Dynamic or movable collimators may present special challenges. The 3D image rendering routine is limited to image sizes of 256x256 pixels.

 

7.  TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

Run times vary.

 

8.  COMPUTER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

The developers run SERA on PC and Sun workstations. The system requires at least 256MB RAM and 200 MB available disk space.

 

9.  COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

This release of SERA was developed to run under the RedHat Linux Operating System (version 7.2 or newer) or the Solaris™ Operating System (version 2.6 or newer) in the X Windows environment (X 11 R6), Motif 1.2 or equivalent, OpenGL. The packages needed to install are gcc and g77 compilers, OpenMotif development libraries, and OpenGL development libraries.

 

10. REFERENCE

D.E. Wessol, et al., "SERA: Simulation Environment for Radiotherapy Applications User's Manual Version 1C0," INEEL/EXT-02-00698 (June 2002).

 

1. CONTENTS OF CODE PACKAGE

Included are the referenced document in PDF format and a Unix tar file which includes source codes, scripts and test cases.

 

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

December 2005

 

KEYWORDS:   MONTE CARLO; COMPLEX GEOMETRY; NEUTRON; GAMMA-RAY; INTERNAL DOSE.