Dose calculation command file reference

The dose calculation command file uses the “ini file” format.

Sections

There are five allowed sections. Each section

Section

Description

[COMMENT]

Settings within a COMMENT section are ignored.

[PLAN]

Describes global settings for the plan. There is only a single PLAN section.

[BEAM]

Describes a single beam within a plan. There can be multiple BEAM sections.

[PEAK]

Describes a single energy or set of energies. There can be multiple PEAK sections.

PLAN options

The PLAN section has the following parameters

Option

Description

patient

Filename of CT image used for planning

target

Filename of target volume image used for automatic generation of conformal plans

threading

Not used

dose_out

Output filename of composite dose

debug

?

dose_prescription

?

ref_dose_point

3D coordinates of weight point

non_normalized_dose

?

BEAM options

The BEAM section has the following parameters

Option

Description

flavor

?

beam_line

?

homo_approx

?

ray_step

?

aperture_out

Image of aperture, 0 means blocked by aperture, and 1 means open in aperture

proj_dose_out

Image of dose in projective coordinate system of beam

proj_img_out

Image of input patient CT in projective coordinate system of beam

proj_target_out

Image of target in projective coordinate system of beam

rc_out

?

particle_number_out

?

sigma_out

?

wed_out

?

beam_dump_out

Specify the directory where beam-specific debugging information gets saved.

beam_type

?

beam_weight

?

depth_dose_z_max

?

depth_dose_z_res

?

source

?

isocenter

?

prescription_min_max

?

aperture_up

?

aperture_offset

?

aperture_origin

?

aperture_resolution

?

aperture_spacing

?

range_comp_mc_model

?

source_size

?

aperture_file_in

?

range_compensator_file_in

?

particle_number_in

?

aperture_smearing

?

proximal_margin

?

distal_margin

?

energy_resolution

?

energy_x

?

PEAK options

The PEAK section has the following parameters

Option

Description

energy

?

spread

?

weight

?

bragg_curve

?