PyLinac - How do you use it.

[Cody Crewson]

For those sites that currently use PyLinac in some form, would you be willing to share your methodology, and a sample test or two? 

[James Murphy (Royal Cornwall Hospital)]

Hi

We are using it to analyse our PTW watertank PDDs and profiles. I have created a package similar and influenced by this https://github.com/tbezo/pymcc. I have added the option to compare the uploaded data against standard data, beam commissioning data for example. This is using the gamma module of the package https://github.com/pymedphys/pymedphys. I will upload it to GitHub once I have made the code a bit more tidy and commented.

In QATrack+ I have created a Test that uploads the PTW file. I use jsonpickle as the output of this Test. I have another Test which takes the jsonpickle data and extracts the appropriate data and calculates the various parameters. The read and calculate Tests are separate so that I can feed parameters from the Testlist into the caculation, mainly the gamma DTA and dose and the threshold.

James

[tbe...@gmail.com]

Hi Cody,

we are using the following pylinac modules in our routine QA: VMAT, WinstonLutz, Cheese (and a little bit of the field profile analysis is also in pymcc).

What do you mean with share "methodology and a sample..."? Do you want do see our QATrack+ test/testlist?

regards

Thomas