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.

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	?

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	?

The PEAK section has the following parameters