THE VERY FIRST STEPS TO INSTALL DICOMAN 1.

Download Microsoft DirectX End-User Runtimes (March 2008 or later) "directx_m ar2008_redist.exe" from following website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=740AC79A-5B72-447D -84F9-EE6407ED1A91&displaylang=en 2. Install directx_mar2008_redist.exe.Please be advised that it is a self-extrac ting package. Select a folder to hold Extracted files. Locate the file "DXSETUP.exe) and execute it. 3. Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package SP1 (x86) "vre dist_x86.exe" from following website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14 -984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en 4. Install vredist_x86.exe. Please be advised that vredist_x86.exe should be ins talled after directx_mar2008_redist.exe. For some reason, the installation order matters. 5. Create a home directory for DICOMan, C:\DICOMan, for example. 6. Execute the self-extracting software package "DICOMan_package.exe" in the hom e directory of DICOMan. 7. Executable DICOMan.exe and follow the prompts to get a license. 8. If you get a error message, please try to install "vredist_x86.exe" again and then execute DICOMan. 9. Email this file to Dr. Yulong Yan ( YanYulong@uams.edu ). 10. Validate the license in Beer License Module by clicking "Acquire the License " button, and then read the license file "BeerLicense.lic". That's it. Enjoy. November 14, 2011 Version 3.4.4, Build 958 1. The "Revamp" module was further updated. 2. The anonymizer was updated. 3. Both RTP input and export modules were further updated. 4. RT Plan module was updated. November 09, 2011 Version 3.4.3, Build 956 1. The DICOM Retriever was further upgraded. 2. Two more global buttons for plan evaluation were added. 3. RT Plan can be exported in RTP format. 4. RTP module was updated. 5. A bug in "Revamp" function was fixed. November 04, 2011 Version 3.4.3, Build 953 1. Plan evaluation was made easier by main menu items. 2. An error in computing suggested jaw opening when parsing MLC files or RTP fil es was corrected. 3. An error in determining beam-on status for a ARC beam was corrected. November 03, 2011 Version 3.4.2, Build 950 1. More parameters of image statistics inside a ROI were added. 2. In the editor, cell editing will be forced to end when some buttons are click ed. 3. The RT Plan module was updated. 4. The System Preference module was updated. 5. Dose statistics of all ROIs can be tabulated in a single sheet. 6. More items were added to the main menu to make associated functions easier to access.

7. The DICOM Retriever was made more flexible to fit specific PACS setting. 8. A bug in dose summation module was removed. October 23, 2011 Version 3.4.1, Build 949 1. Shortcut key bugs in editor and image windows were removed. 2. Online manual was revised in more details. October 21, 2011 Version 3.4.1, Build 947 1. The feature of printing the first segment of each IMRT/IGRT field (beam) was added. 2. A Facility Information module was added. 3. The dose summation module was upgraded. 4. The DICOM editor was further enhanced. October 17, 2011 Version 3.4.0, Build 940 1.A MLC editing module was added for R&D. 2.Major changes were made to the DICOM editor. 3.The RTP module was upgraded to support type 11 MLC. 4.The last DICOM destination entity for the pusher will be remembered. 5.The TomoGrid module was updated. 6.The storage server configuration module was updated. 7.More shortcut keys were added. 8.A bug of some duplicated items was removed. August 15, 2011 Version 3.3.4, Build 938 1. Outer and inner contour will be differentiated in ROI properties. 2. A plan comparison module was added. 3. The active image item will be highlighted in the tree window if the series it em is expended. 4. The Open Folder module was changed. 5. Some minor bugs were removed. 6. DICOM dictionaries were updated based on standards 2011. July 06, 2011 Version 3.3.3, Build 934 1. The support for 16-bit TIFF image was updated. 2. The contour similarity metric module was updated. 3. The DICOM composer was updated. 4. ROI attributes in observation sequence will be displayed. 5. The DICOM pusher was updated. 6. A bug in reading MLC files was fixed. 7. The revamp feature was updated for RTDOSE objects. June 20, 2011 Version 3.3.3, Build 930 1. When measuring the distance on an image, the two ends of the ruler will be co nfined within the image. 2. Beside images Value-At-Cursor was made available to block and applicator rend ering. 3. The licensing module was updated. 4. The pusher was updated. 5. The contour similarity metric module was updated. June 14, 2011 Version 3.3.2, Build 928

1. The Revamp feature for adding 3ddose was updated to avoid potential data over flow problem. 2. A pop-up menu was added for the EGS4 phantom item in the tree window. 3. A bug in calculating ROI statistics was removed. It was introduced in Version 3.2.8. June 08, 2011 Version 3.3.2, Build 926 1 The CT density table was improved. 2. A bug in the batch editing module was removed. The group length tag (0002,000 0) will be reserved (some DICOM applications need the tag). June 07, 2011 Version 3.3.2, Build 925 1. While [CTRL] key is pressed, mouse wheel is used to zoom in/out no matter wha t working status it is. June 06, 2011 Version 3.3.2, Build 924 1. The CT density table manager was added. 2. The EGS4 phantom packaging module was further improved to incorporate CT dens ity table. 3. A bug in the anonymizer was removed. June 03, 2011 Version 3.3.1, Build 923 1. The DICOM editor was upgraded to indicate implicit explicit VR. 2. The EGS4 phantom packaging module was further fine tuned. 3. The support for mixed VR tags (abnormal format) in the editor introduced in B uild 921 was revoked because it causes other problems. June 02, 2011 Version 3.3.0, Build 922 1. EGS4 phantom packaging feature was updated. June 01, 2011 Version 3.3.0, Build 921 1. Some unusual DICOM objects of mixed implicit VR and explicit VR tags can be h andled. June 01, 2011 Version 3.3.0, Build 920 1. The editor was enhanced to propagate tag changes (added, deleted and modified tags) to all sibling objects in the same series. 2. Rendering and editor can be switched. May 25, 2011 Version 3.2.9, Build 919 1. Profiling of IMRT fluence in the making was added. 2. The support for 3ddose format was further improved. May 24, 2011 Version 3.2.8, Build 918 1. The revamp feature was improved. 2. The support for 3ddose format was improved. 3. Some typos in image property were corrected. May 20, 2011 Version 3.2.8, Build 916 1. Auto windowing/leveling was added for reading Monte Carlo 3ddose.

2. CT values instead of pixel values are presented in a profile. 3. An error in calculating coordinates at cursor on a recon RTDOSE image was cor rect. May 19, 2011 Version 3.2.8, Build 915 1. A profiler module was added. 2. The ruler was enhanced fixed. 3. The POI management module was enhanced. 4. Image histogram can be exported in a text file for interested users. 5. A bug in applicator rendering was fixed. 6. A bug in calculating DVHs was fixed. 7. The segment module was enhanced. May 05, 2011 Version 3.2.7, Build 913 1. The Point-Of-Interest (POI) management module was introduced. 2. The Open Folders module was upgraded to let the user pick a folder on mapped drives. 3. The editor is able to apply changes to siblings in the same series. 4. The license module was updated. 5. The segment module was updated. 6. Contours can be overlaid on RTDOSE objects. 7. The Point-Of-Interest (POI) rendering problem introduced in Version 3.2.4 was fixed. 8. The isodose legend display problem introduced in version 3.2.6 was fixed. 9. A dedicated menu for POI was added. 10. The module to compute contour similarities between ROIs was added. 11. The module to compute biological responses was partially implemented. 12. The module to compute pixel statistics within ROIs was added. April 04, 2011 Version 3.2.6, Build 910 1. The image module was enhanced (taking pixel aspect ratio into account). 2. It was made more robust to read some informal DICOM files (Little-Endian Impl icit VR file meta information tags). 3. Brachytherapy dose object can be detected and absolute isodose lines will be displayed accordingly. March 23, 2011 Version 3.2.5, Build 908 1.The DICOM retriever was updated. 2.More interlocks were added in support of segment objects. 3.Frame-Of-Reference can be configured to be the only tie between a RT Structure Set and an image series. March 17, 2011 Version 3.2.4, Build 906 1. Segment object is fully supported. 2. A new feature was added to make up a new series by changing some identifying tags. 3. The Iso-Contour feature was added for any image type instead of exclusive RT Dose objects. 4. The isodose calculation module was enhanced. 5. The on-line manual was updated. March 01, 2011 Version 3.2.3, Build 900 1. A bug in reading lossy compression tagged images introduced in Version 3.2.2 is fixed.

2. The bit planes in segment can be rendered. February 26, 2011 Version 3.2.2, Build 888 1.The Value-At-Cursor feature was upgraded. 2.The RT Image reading module was enhanced. 3.The RT image under MLC rendering will be updated at each control point. 4.The segment object is partially supported. February 16, 2011 Version 3.2.1, Build 886 1. More image interpolation options were added. February 13, 2011 Version 3.2.0, Build 885 1. The Value-At-Cursor feature was improved. 2. In the image window, the Show Contour Geometric Info feature was added. 3. In the Preference module, the default value for Editor In Situ was set true. February 11, 2011 Version 3.1.9, Build 881 1. The ion beam module was enhanced. 2. More internal checks were added to enhance its robustness. 3. Contour Geo Info was added in the menu of an image window. February 02, 2011 Version 3.1.8, Build 880 1.File parsing was enhanced. 2."Export to Pinnacle" was upgraded. January 19, 2011 Version 3.1.7, Build 871 1.The DICOM editor was further enhanced with more menu items and backward search . 2.A pop-up menu was added to property sheet. 3.It was made easier to hide patient ID when demonstrating on non-anonymized dat asets. 4.Some advanced features were made accessible only to the copy with a permanent license. 5.The licensing module was updated. January 03, 2011 Version 3.1.6, Build 870 1. The stepwise rendering of cumulative DVHs was changed to sequential ramps. 2. Information about the referenced RT Dose object and the comparing DVH was add ed in the DVH property page. 3. The dose summation feature was made more flexible. December 28, 2010 Version 3.1.5, Build 869 1.The search and replace features in the DICOM Editor were enhanced. 2.The DVH retraction module was enhanced to avoid DVH duplication. December 26, 2010 Version 3.1.5, Build 868 1.An error in detecting relative isodose curves based on the entered normalizati on dose was fixed. 2.The efficiency of computing isodose curves for two-byte RTDOSE objects was imp roved.

3.The DICOM editor was enhanced with the Find and Replace feature. 4.The DVH retraction module was enhanced to patch corrupt RT Dose objects. December 21, 2010 Version 3.1.4, Build 866 1.The DICOM editor was enhanced with Copy to Clipboard feature. 2.Dose summation feature was further enhanced. 3.DVHs can be compared (CTRL+ Drag and Drop). 4.The images for contouring can be found by slice locations if referenced image instance UIDs are not included in the structure set object. 5.Frame-Of-Reference will be checked when match contours and images. 6.A pop-up menu was added in the Property dialog. 7.The files in the folder "ICONS" or "ICON" on a CD-ROM will not be parsed. November 19, 2010 Version 3.1.3, Build 864 1.An error the DICOM editor was corrected (the data length for the tags (FFFE,E0 0D) and (FFFE,E0DD) was changed from 0xFFFFFFFF to 0x00000000). November 18, 2010 Version 3.1.3, Build 863 1.A link to RTPLAN object that delivers the RTDOSE will be added in RTDOSE serie s. 2.Links to RTDOSE objects will be added in the RTPLAN object that delivers those RTDOSE objects. 3.DVH module was further improved. 4.Biological indices such as EUD, TCP and NTCP can be calculated. 5.ROI display option module was improved. 6.An image display error for one-byte grayscale image introduced in Version 3.0. 1 was correct. 8.DICOM editor was improved. November 11, 2010 Version 3.1.2, Build 862 1. A minor bug in displaying DVH was fixed. November 03, 2010 Version 3.1.1, Build 860 1. More menu items were added for the printing feature. 2. Series items will be highlighted when changing series in the image window. 3. The Fluence calculation module was further improved. 4. DVH calculation was further improved. 5. "Change Position" feature was made more user-friendly. 6. Printing feature was further improved. October 11, 2010 Version 3.1.0, Build 859 1.Printing feature was added. 2."Fluence in the making" was added to show the fluence accumulating process of IMRT treatment. 3.The dose axis of DVH display can be stretched. 4.Dose axis labeling in DVH display was improved. 5.The mouse wheel can be use to change the content in the text input slot of the play panel. 6.A minor error was corrected for rendering beam-on aperture indicator (sometime s the beam-on highlight does not appear). 7.The background of DVH rendering can be changed to be more printer-friendly. 8.Two more short-cut buttons (Isodose Setting and Print Window) were added to th e image toolbox. 9.An error in handling user entered normalization dose was corrected.

September 23, 2010 Version 3.0.1, Build 851 1. The referenced (used for overlaying isodose lines on planning images) RT Dose object will be indicated by its icon in the tree window. 2. The dose distribution overlay on the planning images is selectable by drag&dr op relevant dose object on planning image window. 3. If more dose objects were dropped in the image window, they will be summed up . 4. When a tree item is double clicked, its associated data will be rendered in t he active image window. 5. A menu item "Order" was added in the image window pop-up menu so that images can be ordered by slice locations. 6. The image tiling feature was improved. 7. The associated RT image will be shown automatically when the MLC item of a fi eld is double clicked or dropped. September 21, 2010 Version 3.00, Build 850 1. Dose distributions from different treatment modalities can be summed up withi n DICOMan. 2. The IMPAC RTP format is supported. 3. The feature of adding RT Image links in fields has been improved. 4. Varian MLC files (file version G and H) can be read and rendered. 5. The search feature in the DICOM editor was made case insensitive. 6. The rendering of MLC segments will match the RT image at any collimator angle . 7. An error in computing IMRT fluence for MLCY was fixed. 8. Setting normalization dose for isodose rendering was improved. 9. The user will be prompted when it is installed on an unsupported operating sy stem. September 08, 2010 Version 2.98, Build 844 1. RT image links will be automatically added to the corresponding beam items. 2. MLC segment can be overlaid on RT image if there is any. 3. MLC segment can be overlaid on intensity map. 4. The menu for MLC control point in the image window was changed. 5. The tree item labels in the tree window can be copied ( CTRL+C ) to clipboard . September 03, 2010 Version 2.97, Build 842 1. The display of block and applicator can be zoomed. 2. Some typos were fixed. 3. Zooming at orthogonal view mode is supported. 4. Nonuniform dose grid is supported. 5. The extra junky zeros at the back of some DICOM images will be ignored in the editor. What is new in the version 2.96 Build 840 August 24, 2010 1. DICOMan 3D format is supported for both import and export. 2. Two inconsistent menu titles for non-DICOM images are fixed. 3. The write permission of the DICOM staging folder will be checked before the s torage server is launched. 4. Applicator can be graphically displayed. 5. The main DICOM tag dictionary is updated. 6. More menus are added. 7."Change UIDs" options are provided to users who want to change patient positio

n for the imaging series. What is new in the version 2.95 Build 836 August 13, 2010 1. Adding KV imaging dose to treatment dose is implemented. It is a result of co llaboration with Dr. Jun Deng at Yale University. 2. Beam applicator module is supported. 3. The isodose setting module is enhanced to allow user to enter normalization d ose. 4. Two more dose summation types "FRACTION"and "MULTI_PLAN" are supported. 5. The scale convention will be taken into account when export MLC files. 6. A minor error in changing ROI rendering status is fixed. 7. ROI displaying status is indicated in the tree item label. 8. A minor bug in the system preference module is fixed. 9. Synchronized image display for registered imaging studies is added. 10. The orthogonal view of reconstructed contours on the orthogonal images is fu nctioning. 11. The current BEAM, BLOCK, WEDGE, PRESCRIPTION, BRACHY MACHINE, BRACHY SOURCE, BRACHY SETUP, BRACHY CHANNEL, APPLICATOR and ROI will be highlighted in the DIC OM editor. 12. More menu items are added to menus in the tree window. 13. An option module is added to get user's input. 14. The dose summation module is improved to avoid potential overflow problem. What is new in the version 2.94 Build 832 July 23, 2010 1. The current control point or a RTPLAN object will be highlighted in the DICOM editor. 2. A minor bug of overlapping pilot windows when changing image window layout is fixed. 3. A minor bug of disabled Alt+Tab application switching in "Editor In Situ" mod e is fixed. 4. A pop-up menu is added for block viewing window. What is new in the version 2.93 Build 830 July 16, 2010 1. It is able to reset slice location for all images in one series. 2. Orthogonal view of contours on the reconstructed orthogonal planes is impleme nted. 3. Scale convention of either IEC or VARIAN is made configurable. 4. The DICOM Editor is made resizable. 5. DICOM Editor can be configured to display in situ. 6. More entries (menu item "Edit Tags") to the DICOM Editor are added. 7. The compensator module is enhanced to support multiple milling machine format s. What is new in the version 2.92 Build 822 July 07, 2010 1. ROI and DVH display option modules are added. What is new in the version 2.91 Build 820 June 29, 2010 1. DVHs can be recalculated if they are not included in RT Dose objects. 2. All DVHs can be shown in the same window, and the active DVH can be switched in mouse wheel. 3. When in multiple cumulative DVHs displaying mode, line pattern can be changed . 4. DVH color can be changed when the corresponding ROI is absent. 5. The compensator can be exported in Inventor 3D format so that it can be mille d.

6. The compensator image view is upgraded. 7. The block view is upgraded. What is new in the version 2.86 Build 811 June 06, 2010 1. The potential overflow error when summing field dose matrices is fixed. What is new in the version 2.85 Build 810 June 03, 2010 1. Patient position can be changed for the entire series so that patient does no t has to be rescanned if the patient is to be planned & treated in the opposite position, Head-First-Supine (HFS) to Feet-First-Supine (FFS) for instance.It Supports all eight possible positions. 2. The patient position information is added when rendering images. 3. The anonymized dataset will be automatically unpacked. 4. The licensing module is improved. 5. "TOMO Seeding" is added to "Spawn TOMO GRID Target" module. What is new in the version 2.84 Build 808 May 28, 2010 1. A minor bug in setting the calling AE title in the DICOM pusher module is fix ed. 2. More information is shown in ROI 3D rendering window. 3. The contour slab thickness will not be asked whenever it is retrievable or ha s been read. 4. A minor bug in the "Anonymize" module is fixed. What is new in the version 2.83 Build 806 May 24, 2010 1. The "Live Parsing" can be configured to automatically unpack RT Structure Set and RT Plan objects. 2. "Spawn TOMO GRID Target" is fully functioning. 3. Contour changes can be saved. 4. An error in display CyberKnife RT Dose DVHs is fixed. 5. The licensing module is upgraded. 6. The ROI volume will not be calculated if it is read. 7. DVH's color will be synchronized with ROI's color if RT Structure Set object is present. 8. Jaw labels will be shown. 9. The angle information of the table and the beam limiting device will be shown when rendering MLC segments. 10.The information display in the MLC rendering window is no longer blinking. 11.The error in displaying RT image orientation is fixed. 12.The gantry angle information will be shown when rendering a RT image. 13.More information is shown in the block view window. 14.The dynamic "MLC Play Panel" is added to image window at the bottom to facili tate image browsing. What is new in the version 2.82 Build 802 May 03, 2010 1. The support for ultrasound image is improved. 2. Isodose detection is improved. 3. A multiframe option is added to "Save As DICOM". 4. The block rendering module is upgraded again. What is new in the version 2.80 Build 800 April 23, 2010 1. The live parsing feature for DICOM storage server is added (the incoming DICO M objects will be parsed and rendered when received).

2. When receiving incoming DICOM objects, the information about the current DICO M source folder will be automatically updated (press F3 to parse the latest inco ming objects). 3. 2D and 3D rendering states of contours are independently controlled. 4. Image sorting is performed for all patients (it used to perform image sorting only for the first open patient). 5. "Unpack All" menu items are added to Patient, RT Plan series and RT Structure Set series tree items. 6. The contour rendering module is enhanced to support rotated image set. 7. The DICOM retriever is upgraded by including series description. 8. DVH of dose matrix is calculated on the fly when extracting DVHs from a RT Do se object. 9. Drawing DVH curves is much faster. 10.The OrthoView feature is further improved to be more user-friendly. 11.More initialization options are provided including customized color setting. 12.A minor bug (the diameter did not change with slice) in overlaying POI on RTD OSE in top-left window is fixed. 13.The dose-specific menu is added. 14.The feature of converting dose matrix to Pinnacle dose matrix format is enhan ced to support both descending dose plane order (TOMO for example) and ascending dose plane order (CMS XIO for example). 15.All message dialogs are topmost and response compulsive (less confusing). 16.The raw image reading module is improved. 17.The license problem for laptops is solved. 18.A set of Boolean operations on ROI are implemented. 19.Three standard viewing angles are added in 3D window. 20.A menu is added to the property sheet window. 21.The rendering of MLC segments and the fluence map is zoomed to fit the window . 22.The whole system is further optimized. What is New in Version 2.70 Build 700 February 20, 2010 1. RT Ion therapy plan is supported. 2. It supports multiple plans in one RT Plan 3. It supports multiple RT Structure Sets in 4. Converting film dosimetry files to common 5. Transfer syntax determination is enhanced tions.

series. one RT Structure Set series. image formats is supported. to support various DICOM implementa

What is New in Version 2.65 Build 691 February 11, 2010 1. All tree items can be dragged & dropped. They will be either graphically rend ered (image, DVH, MLC, ROI, block etc.) or tabulated (property sheet) in the place of an image window. 2. Annotation font in the image window is shadowed. 3. Point-Of-Interest can be displayed in image windows. 4. Tree items are dated and sorted. What is New in Version 2.64 Build 688 February 03, 2010 1. An error on version release date is corrected. 2. On-line manual is updated. 3. Histogram panels of other image windows would not be shown when one window is maximized. 4. DICOM RT Structure Set can be unpacked even if it is mistakenly encoded in th e same series UID as image series. What is New in Version 2.63 Build 686 January 29, 2010

1. In 3D window, structures will be rendered in the actual x/y ratio. 2. The Direct3D camera position is fixed at a distance of 1000 mm from the point being viewed (the geometrical center of enclosing box of the structure set), ma king that all structures will be seen at the first glance. 3. The pilot window will hide with its parental image window giving space to the maximized image window. 4. Folders can be dropped open on DICOMan desktop icon or in the main frame of t he application. 5. Pseudocolor scheme can be memorized. 6. Four standard pseudocolor palettes (Hot Iron, PET, Hot Metal Blue and PET 20 Step) are added. 7. The last viewed image or the slice in and multi-framed image can be memorized . 8. RT Image module is further enhanced to overlay graticule and curves actually for RT images from various venders. 9. The unit for ruler is changed to DICOM default length unit mm. 10.The customized isodose setting can be saved, read and managed. 11.DICOM dictionaries are updated. 12.Registration object can be read. 13.Dose summation module is improved. 14.A bug in licensing module is removed. What is New in Version 2.61 Build 683 January 13, 2010 1. Dose summation is upgraded to support summing dose matrices of different dime nsions and positions. What is New in Version 2.61 Build 681 January 11, 2010 1. Reading raw image module is improved. 2. Tree icons are adjusted. 3. Indexed color image will be displayed in true colors instead of color indices . 4. An error in dose summation for cases of prone positions is fixed. 5. Calculating coordinates at cursor is improved. 6. Approval status in RT Plan is displayed. What is New in Version 2.60 Build 680 January 08, 2010 1. RT Record is fully supported. 2. Replicated DICOM objects are ignored. 3. When showing isodose lines, dose summation will be automatically performed wh enever it is applicable. 4. Coordinates and dose value will be shown in the Value-At-Cursor window. 5. Menu item "Sum Dose" is added to RT Dose series tree item for user to perform dose summation manually. What is New in Version 2.55 Build 625 December 31, 2009 1. The RT Image module is enhanced to handle excessive tag data. 2. RT Record objects are distinguished from regular image objects. 3. A bug in mapping multiple RTDOSE objects is fixed. What is New in Version 2.54 Build 623 December 30, 2009 1. Files of currently open patients will not be reparsed when "Keep Current Stud y" option is selected. 2. Prescription node is added under RTPLAN tree item. 3. In the Beam Property window, an error in displaying jaw settings at individua l control points is fixed.

4. An error in DVH display is fixed. 5. The license is network domain independent. 6. Text information is added in the MLC window. 7. Text information is added in the 3D window. 8. Pseudocolor will be set to default grayscale for dropped image item. 9. New menu item is added for 3D window. 10.Pilot window, image tool panel and MLC control panel are no longer top-most w indows. 11.The size of value-at-cursor window is adaptive to text content. 12.More attributes are added in Plan Property. What is New in Version 2.53 Build 620 December 17, 2009 1. File parsing efficiency is further improved. 2. CMS Xio dose map format is supported. What is New in Version 2.52 Build 618 November 25, 2009 1. Isodose setting module is upgraded. 2. An error in saving MLC fluence map as RAW data is fixed. 3. Image histogram of FLOAT or DOUBLE format is supported. 4. The error in reading pixel dimension of RTIMAGE object is correct. 5. A graticule overlay is added for RTIMAGE object. What is New in Version 2.51 Build 611 November 01, 2009 1. BrainLAB iPlan planar dose map can be read and displayed. 2. CMS Focus planar dose map can be read and displayed. 3. Philips Pinnacle planar dose map can be read and displayed. 4. Varian Eclipse fluence and dose map can be read and displayed. 5. RIT film disometry format is fully supported. 6. PTW Seven29 ion chamber array measurement can be read and displayed. 7. Image rotation for non-DICOM image is supported. 8. The pop-up menu of image window is grouped. 9. PLATO dose map can be read and displayed. 10. A MLC control panel is added for each rendering window. What is New in Version 2.46 Build 606 1. A bug in picking MLC leaf after panning is fixed. 2. More menu items for MLC display are added. 3. An error in reading tolerance tables in RT Plan object is fixed. 4. MLC control points can be exported in individual MLC files (Varian forma t). What is New in Version 2.44 Build 604 1. A bug in DICOM Editor is removed. 2. More attributes of all kinds of DICOM objects are read and displayed. 3. RTPLAN module is updated. 4. A new function REVAMP is added to image window menu, allowing the user to rep lace current image data with that of another image. This will allow the user to edit DICOM image data in other image processing t ools and put data back in. 5. Read / save raw image data. 6. Support 8-bit image data of either double precision floating point or 8-bit s igned/unsigned integer. 7. RIT film scan format is supported. What is New in Version 2.43 Build 602 1. Extra large image is supported. 2. Histogram and W/L panel is updated.

3. One error in computing orthogonal images is corrected. 4. A few minor bugs are removed. What is New in Version 2.42 Build 600 1. The W/L histogram panel and pilot window will move with the mail window now. 2. Individual ROI can be dragged to display. 3. Patient ID in both the tree window and the image window will be instantaneous ly anonymized when the preference item "Hide Patient ID" is set true. 4. DICOM editor is beautified. 5. Individual ROIs can be dragged and displayed in 3D window. August 07, 2009 Version 2.40, Build 526 1. Data in RT Plan and RT Structure objects will be extracted automatically for the first patient. 2. Auto windowing / leveling is improved. 3. Window/level (histogram) control panel is beautified. 4. More menu items in the tree window are added. 5. Format conversion from non-DICOM to DICOM is further enhanced to facilitate m aking artificial phantom for researchers. 6. An error in aligning RT Dose object with image set is fixed. 7. Efficiency of file parsing is further improved. 8. An error in computing z-coordinate of RT Dose object being in descending plan e order is fixed. 9. The tone is changed. July 21, 2009 Version 2.38, Build 520 1. Auto windowing & leveling function is added. 2. Menu items are added for restoring original window and level. 3. Online manual is updated with corrected links and cross references. 4. Histogram control panel is updated. July 10, 2009 Version 2.37, Build 518 1. ROI volume can be computed. 2. The width of the tree window can be manually adjusted by dragging the se parator between the tree window and image windows. 3. Many more cross reference hyperlinks for are added in online manual. July 02, 2009 Version 2.36, Build 512 1. Image toolbox is added. 2. Working status in image window can be changed by pressing mouse wheel. 3. Image information is displayed in smaller font but more notable color. 4. Isodose curve display at orthogonal view mode is synchronized. 5. The uncomfortable flash when showing histogram and window/level preset w indow is gone. 6. All child windows of an image window (toolbox, window/level preset and p ilot image window) are displayed in translucent manner. June 06, 2009 Version 2.35, Build 505 1. Isodose curves of up to 254 levels can be computed in almost real-time a nd displayed either on RTDOSE object or planning images. 2. Orthogonal view of volumetric isodose distribution is allowed. 3. Push function is extended to support pushing all DICOM files of selected patient or study. 4. The confusing Display menu item on RT Set item is removed. 5. The pilot window is back to work.

6. Mouse wheel can be used to change window/level values in their input slo ts of Window/Level preset window. 7. A few bugs are fixed. What's new in Version 2.35 Build 504 1. Isodose lines can be computed and rendered onto either RTDOSE object or the referenced planning images. 2. File parsing efficiency is significantly improved. 3. Interlocking is further enhanced. 4. More shortcut keys and buttons are added. What's new in Version 2.32 Build 400 1. Exporting TomoTherapy RTDOSE to Pinnacle3 RTP system is fully functioning. 2. The function to convert non-DICOM image to DICOM was further improved to supp ort FOUR modalities (CR, CT, MR, RTIMAGE). 3. Value-At-Cursor function was added. 4. Two more options (Keep Current Studies and Include Non-DICOM Images) are prov ided when performing file search. 5. A bug in reading RTDOSE objects received by DICOMan (when it acts as a DICOM storage server) was fixed. What's new in Version 2.30 Build 380 1. Besides AVI and TIFF, more non-DICOM image formats (BMP, GIF, J2K, JBG, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA and TIFF) are supported. 2. It reads multi-framed XRD-FG X-ray images so it can be converted into other f ormats including DICOM. 2. DICOM source parsing become more flexible so that multiple DICOM sources and non-DICOM images if needed can be viewed at a time. 3. Image format conversion among DICOM and non-DICOM images is fully implemented . What's new in Version 2.22 Build 373 1. A bug in saving fluence map or compensator transmission data to TIFF was fixe d. 2. Complete ROI contour data is included in ROI property sheet. What's new in Version 2.22 Build 371 1. A bug (system crashes after viewing RTDOSE in orthoview) was fixed. What's new in Version 2.22 Build 370 1. MLC intensity map can be calculated and displayed. 2. Displaying block geometry is supported. 3. An error in computing physical dimension or reconstructed image is corrected. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. IMRT MLC fluence can be calculated and displayed. Displaying block geometry is supported. Interlocking is enhanced and a few bugs were removed. A feedback message window for DICOM storage server is added. Series image sorting is improved. What's new in Version 2.2 Build 340 1. Orthogonal view is implemented. 2. Displaying DVH curve is added. 3. Deleting "Read-Only" unwanted DICOM files is supported. 4. Interlocking is enhanced to make this software more robust. 5. Data rendering for compensator is supported. 6. Extracting dose matrix and converting it to RTP acceptable format (curre ntly only Pinnacle RTP is supported). 7. A bug in image orientation labeling is removed.

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in calculating world coordinates is removed. in pixel value display is removed. pusher and retriever are further improved. in series image sorting for mixed image types is removed.

What's new in Version 2.1 Build 330 1. DICOM editor is fully implemented. All tags of individual files can be e dited plus data extraction. 2. Anonymization function is fully implemented. All DICOM files of one pati ents can be processed in a single job session. 3. Brachytherapy plan is supported. 4. Support for RTDOSE is enhanced with DVH and dose matrix extraction. 5. Reading and rendering embedded curves in DICOM image is supported. 6. DICOM retriever is improved. 7. DICOM dictionary is updated. 8. Code is further optimized for higher efficiency. 9. RTPLAN module is improved to support beam modeifying devices such as wedge, block and compensator etc. Tracks of older versions are not included.