DICOM PS3.3 2024e - Information Object Definitions |
---|
This section provides a brief description of the IODs of RT Second Generation. Specifically, this description includes:
This section provides a description of the Module structure which is shared by the RT Second Generation IODs.
The E-R Model in Figure A.86.1.1.1-1 depicts those components of the DICOM Information Model that are relevant to RT Second Generation IODs.
For first generation IODs, no specific semantics are attached to a Study or a Series in RT. Similarly, for RT Second Generation IODs, internal references shall be used to relate and locate SOP Instances rather than making assumptions about how related SOP Instances are grouped into Studies or Series. For practical reasons it may be indicated to create a new Study separate from imaging Studies that are used for radiotherapeutic planning because of billing or reimbursement for Series that contain RT Instances.
Implementers should also note that the DICOM Standard, in general, does place some restrictions on how such SOP Instances should be grouped, as defined in Section A.1.2.3.
For non-image modalities like radiotherapy, the Series may not be the most efficient way to search for objects. Instead, an application might find it easier to use references in the RT Course object, Key Object Selection objects or Unified Worklist Procedure Steps to directly retrieve required Instances rather than search for them.
The RT Physician Intent IOD carries the prescriptions by which the physician describes the therapeutic goal and strategy for the radiotherapeutic treatment.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
Table A.86.1.2-1. RT Physician Intent IOD Modules
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the specified CID:
For Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9536 “Radiotherapy Prescribing and Segmenting Person Role” shall be used. |
The RT Segment Annotation IOD annotates any general-purpose entity that represents geometric information such as Segmentation IOD, Surface Segmentation IOD, and RT Structure Set IOD with radiotherapy-specific information that cannot be encoded in the content of the annotated SOP Instance, or overrides that content with new or additional interpretation.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the specified CID:
For Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9536 “Radiotherapy Prescribing and Segmenting Person Role” shall be used. |
The RT Radiation Set IOD represents an RT Radiation Set, which is a set of radiation deliveries that are intended to be delivered together in a single fraction (see Section 7.14.5). The RT Radiation Set also contains a description of the fractionation pattern, the intended number of fractions and the associated dose contributions.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The User Content Label (3010,0033) in each RT Radiation Instance shall be unique across all SOP Instances referenced by an Instance of the RT Radiation Set.
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the specified CID:
For Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9555 “Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Person Role” shall be used. |
The C-Arm Photon-Electron Radiation IOD describes a radiotherapy treatment to be performed on a C-Arm delivery device using photon or electron radiation.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall be 1.2.840.10008.1.4.3.1, which identifies the [IEC 61217] Fixed Coordinate System Frame of Reference; see Section C.36.12.2.1.
The Frame of Reference identifies the Patient Coordinate System used to define the geometric setup of the radiation beam with respect to the patient. The relationship of the patient-based coordinates to the Equipment Frame of Reference is specified by a transformation (see Section 10.39).
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the specified CID:
The RT Device Distance Reference Location Code Sequence (300A,0659) shall contain the value (130358, DCM, "Nominal Radiation Source Location").
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be NO.
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the specified CID:
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the specified CID:
Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9555 “Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Person Role” |
The Tomotherapeutic Radiation IOD represents the information required to describe a radiotherapy treatment on a serial or helical tomotherapeutic delivery device.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall be 1.2.840.10008.1.4.3.1, which identifies the [IEC 61217] Fixed Coordinate System Frame of Reference; see Section C.36.12.2.1.
The Frame of Reference identifies the Patient Coordinate System used to define the geometric setup of the radiation beam with respect to the patient. The relationship of the patient-based coordinates to the Equipment Frame of Reference is specified by a transformation (see Section 10.39).
The following Code Sequence shall have a value from the identified CID:
The RT Device Distance Reference Location Code Sequence (300A,0659) shall contain the value (130358, DCM, "Nominal Radiation Source Location").
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be NO.
The following Code Sequences shall have a value from the identified CIDs:
The following code sequence shall have a value from the identified CID:
Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9555 “Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Person Role” |
The Robotic-Arm Radiation IOD specifies the Robotic Path and collimation parameters required to describe a radiotherapy treatment on a robotic-arm delivery device. A Robotic Path is a sequence of Robotic Nodes. A Robotic Node specifies a Radiation Source location for a Robotic-Arm delivery device.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall be 1.2.840.10008.1.4.3.2, which identifies the Standard Robotic-Arm Coordinate System Frame of Reference; see Section C.36.12.2.2.
The Frame of Reference identifies the Patient Coordinate System used to define the geometric setup of the radiation beam with respect to the patient. The relationship of the patient-based coordinates to the Equipment Frame of Reference is specified by a transformation (see Section 10.39).
The following code sequences shall have a value from the identified CID:
The RT Device Distance Reference Location Code Sequence (300A,0659) shall contain the value (130358, DCM, "Nominal Radiation Source Location").
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be NO.
The following code sequences shall have a value from the identified CID:
The following code sequence shall have a value from the identified CID:
Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9555 “Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Person Role” |
The RT Radiation Record Set IOD references a set of RT Radiation Record Instances of a radiotherapy treatment that has been performed using a single RT Radiation Set SOP Instance and its referenced RT Radiation Instances.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
Where dose contributions are not available at the time of delivery of the radiotherapeutic treatments specified by the RT Radiation Set IOD (e.g., for emergency treatments), the RT Dose Contribution Record Module may be absent. This does not exclude retrospective dose calculation and creation of associated RT Dose Image objects.
The RT Radiation Salvage Record IOD contains the record of a complete or partial fraction of therapeutic radiation delivered using any therapeutic device where recording by the modality-specific RT Radiation Record IOD was not possible.
A device usually creates RT Radiation Record SOP Instances using modality-specific RT Radiation Record IODs and transfers these Instances to a system that captures treatment records. If this process fails (e.g. because of failed transfer operations) and the recorded SOP Instances are not recoverable from the device, the RT Radiation Salvage Record IOD may be used to represent radiation delivery captured by a manual entry of the delivered treatment. Systems providing manual entry capabilities might not be able to create a modality-specific RT Radiation Record SOP Instance covering all device-specific parameters in question and/or the user might not know all the details. Therefore, the modality-specific RT Radiation Record IODs cannot be properly populated. The RT Radiation Salvage Record IOD allows essential information to be recorded.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall have the value used by the SOP Instance referenced in the Referenced RT Instance Sequence (300A,0631) of the RT Radiation Record Common Module.
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
Defined CID is the CID specified for the SOP Instance referenced in the Referenced RT Instance Sequence (300A,0631) of the RT Radiation Record Common Module. |
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be YES.
The value of Treatment Record Content Origin (300A,0709) shall be USER.
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
Defined CID is the CID specified for the SOP Instance referenced in the Referenced RT Instance Sequence (300A,0631) of the RT Radiation Record Common Module. |
|
Defined CID is the CID specified for the SOP Instance referenced in the Referenced RT Instance Sequence (300A,0631) of the RT Radiation Record Common Module. |
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
For Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9562 “Radiotherapy Treatment Delivery Person Role” shall be used. |
The Frame of Reference UID (0020,0052) identifies the patient-based Frame of Reference while the therapeutic radiation was delivered. The Frame of Reference UID relates the geometric parameters of this SOP Instance to other SOP Instances such as Images, Segmentations, etc. If the patient moves with respect to the patient positioning device between the delivery recorded by the current SOP Instance and another SOP Instance, a new Frame of Reference UID shall be issued for any SOP Instances created after the move. See also Section C.7.4.1.
The relationship between the patient-oriented coordinate system identified by this Frame of Reference and the Equipment Coordinate System is described in Section 10.39.1.
The C-Arm Photon-Electron Radiation Record IOD contains the record of a radiotherapy treatment that has been performed using a C-Arm Photon-Electron Radiation SOP Instance.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall be 1.2.840.10008.1.4.3.1, which identifies the [IEC 61217] Fixed Coordinate System Frame of Reference, see Section C.36.12.2.1.
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
The RT Device Distance Reference Location Code Sequence (300A,0659) shall contain the value (130358, DCM, "Nominal Radiation Source Location").
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be YES. The value of RT Radiation Physical and Geometric Content Detail Flag (300A,0638) shall be IDENT_ONLY.
The following code sequences shall have a value from the identified CIDs:
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
For Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9562 “Radiotherapy Treatment Delivery Person Role” shall be used. |
See Section A.86.1.9.4.5.
The Tomotherapeutic Radiation Record IOD contains the record of a radiotherapy treatment that has been performed using a Tomotherapeutic Radiation SOP Instance.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall be 1.2.840.10008.1.4.3.1, which identifies the [IEC 61217] Fixed Coordinate System Frame of Reference, see Section C.36.12.2.1.
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
The RT Device Distance Reference Location Code Sequence (300A,0659) shall contain the value (130358, DCM, "Nominal Radiation Source Location").
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be YES. The value of RT Radiation Physical and Geometric Content Detail Flag (300A,0638) shall be IDENT_ONLY.
The following code sequences shall have a value from the identified CIDs:
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9562 “Radiotherapy Treatment Delivery Person Role”. |
See Section A.86.1.9.4.5.
The Robotic-Arm Radiation Record IOD contains the record of a radiotherapy treatment that has been performed using a Robotic-Arm Radiation SOP Instance.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Equipment Frame of Reference UID (300A,0675) shall be 1.2.840.10008.1.4..3.2, which identifies the Standard Robotic-Arm Coordinate System Frame of Reference, see Section C.36.12.2.2.
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
The RT Device Distance Reference Location Code Sequence (300A,0659) shall contain the value (130358, DCM, "Nominal Radiation Source Location").
The value of RT Record Flag (300A,0639) shall be YES. The value of RT Radiation Physical and Geometric Content Detail Flag (300A,0638) shall be IDENT_ONLY.
The following code sequences shall have a value from the identified CIDs:
The following code sequences shall have values from the identified CIDs:
For Organizational Role Code Sequence (0044,010A) DCID 9562 “Radiotherapy Treatment Delivery Person Role” shall be used. |
See Section A.86.1.9.4.5.
The RT Radiation Set Delivery Instruction IOD contains all the parameters needed to deliver a single RT Treatment Fraction of one RT Radiation Set in the scope of one RT Treatment Session. It handles either the delivery of the complete fraction of the RT Radiation Set or the continuation of a formerly treated fraction which was interrupted and not completely delivered.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The RT Treatment Preparation IOD describes the setup of the patient in preparation for delivery of the therapeutic radiation within an RT Treatment Session. It may include an initial patient’s position in preparation for treatment delivery, the treatment setup positions, or setup procedures along with the use of any fixation or shielding devices.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
The Enhanced RT Image IOD represents projection images generated before, during or after Radiotherapy treatment sessions. The projection images may be acquired directly or may be derived ("reconstructed") from volumetric data such as CT. Such images capture the patient geometry to guide, or record, the positioning of the patient on a patient support device to deliver therapeutic dose to an intended location.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
Table A.86.1.15-1 specifies the Modules of the Enhanced RT Image IOD.
Table A.86.1.15-1. Enhanced RT Image IOD Modules
The General Image Module, Overlay Plane Module, Modality LUT Module and VOI LUT Module shall not be used in a Standard Extended SOP Class of the Enhanced RT Image.
The Curve Module (Retired) was previously included in the list of Modules that shall not be present, but has been retired. It is still not permitted to be present. See PS3.3-2004.
In the Image Pixel Module, the following constraints apply:
Table A.86.1.15-2 specifies the use of the Functional Group Macros used in the Multi-frame Functional Groups Module for the Enhanced RT Image IOD.
Table A.86.1.15-2. Enhanced RT Image Functional Group Macros
The Pixel Spacing (0028,0030) is measured on the x/y plane of the Image Receptor Coordinate System at z = 0. Imager Pixel Spacing (0018,1164) shall not be used.
See Section C.7.6.16.2.1 for a description of Pixel Spacing (0028,0030).
See Section C.36.1.1.12 for a description of the Image Receptor Coordinate System.
The Enhanced Continuous RT Image IOD represents projection images generated before, during or after Radiotherapy treatment sessions. The projection images may be acquired directly or may be derived ("reconstructed") from volumetric data such as CT. Such images capture the patient geometry to guide, or record, the positioning of the patient on a patient support device to deliver therapeutic dose to an intended location.
This IOD limits the content to a selected set of frames in the Per-Frame Functional Group when a high number of frames are present due to a high frame rate (e.g. 25 frames / second).
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
Table A.86.1.16-1 specifies the Modules of the Enhanced Continuous RT Image IOD.
Table A.86.1.16-1. Enhanced Continuous RT Image IOD Modules
The General Image Module, Overlay Plane Module, Modality LUT Module, VOI LUT Module and Multi-frame Dimension Module shall not be used in a Standard Extended SOP Class of the Enhanced Continuous RT Image.
The Curve Module (Retired) was previously included in the list of Modules that shall not be present, but has been retired. It is still not permitted to be present. See PS3.3-2004.
In the Image Pixel Module, the constraints specified in Section A.86.1.15.4.3 apply.
Table A.86.1.16-2 specifies the use of the Functional Group Macros used in the Sparse Multi-frame Functional Groups Module for the Enhanced Continuous RT Image IOD.
Table A.86.1.16-2. Enhanced Continuous RT Image Functional Group Macros
The Pixel Spacing (0028,0030) is measured on the x/y plane of the Image Receptor Coordinate System at z = 0. Imager Pixel Spacing (0018,1164) shall not be used.
See Section C.7.6.16.2.1 for a description of Pixel Spacing (0028,0030).
See Section C.36.1.1.12 for a description of the Image Receptor Coordinate System.
The RT Patient Position Acquisition Instruction IOD contains parameters needed to acquire the actual patient position.
See Figure A.86.1.1.1-1.
DICOM PS3.3 2024e - Information Object Definitions |
---|