Pinnacle and Iview

[Anas Akkad]

Dear list,

When we export the plan from pinnacle to Iview, the MTA begin to sort the exported field in order to match the DRR taken by Iview station with the DRR exported from pinnacle and to do so they need to edit the field name. One MTA told me that there is a way that makes all these fields be organized automatically in a way that the MTA dose not need to do any thing. Any one knows about such a method or a similar thing? Or maybe you can share with me the steps each one follows in their daily clinical routine?

Best regards

Anas Akkad

Medical Physicist

Praxis für Radiologie und Strahlentherapie 

[Mohr, Dr. Peter]

Dear Akas,

 

there are two ways how Pinnacle can export images to Elekta iview. It seems to me that you use the “Print BEV Using 1:1 Scale” button (DICOM Print function) which sends a screenshot of the DRR to the iview database; i.e., this transfers only one DDR without too much information on the underlying beam and without calibration of the image scale. Alternatively, you can export the whole plan using the “DICOM Export” function. Here you have to select the “Destination AE Title” and the options “RT Plans”, “RT Images”, “Annotate RT Images” (in Pinnacle V9.4). Then the iview database receives the whole structure, i.e. all beams of the selected prescription, and iview reads the scale calibration from the DICOM data. I hope that this information helps!

 

Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen

       Peter Mohr

 

 

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[Paul Cooper]

Yes, this is correct, the downside though is that the dicom export method of transferring the DRR uses some default DRR configuration settings which may result in a poor image. For example it always renders the entire 40x40 field of view, whereas when printing manually one field at a time, one can zoom in to show a more clinically useful and informative picture. It does at least keep the same DCR and/or VOI settings, if you have made any changes to those. Also it always uses 512 resolution, I think, whereas in some cases you may see an improvement with a higher number, if your CT slices are close enough together.

Paul Cooper, CMD

OHSU, Portland OR, USA