Extracting colour channel data in Python
Flatbed film scanners are used within radiation oncology medical physics departments for the scanning of radiosensitive film. Depending on the film in use, a physicist will want to extract colour channel data from the scan, which is frequently saved as a…
Python Exercise #1C – Film Calibrator
Radiosensitive film is frequently used by radiation oncology medical physicists for quality assurance measurements. The physicist is sometimes interested in obtaining a calibrated dose value (as opposed to relative values). One calibration method, using calculated optical density (OD) values, involves…
Python Exercise #1B – Field Size Calculator
The field size of a radiation beam is generally defined using the 50% isodose line. When examining cross-plane or in-plane dose profiles, this can be referred to as the full width at half maximum (FWHM). The second python exercise, detailed here, was…
Python Exercise #1A – MLC shaper
The MLC Shaper application, developed by Varian, allows the creation of .MLC files that can be used to deliver multi-leaf collimated fields in service. The first python exercise, detailed here, was to develop similar software to allow the creation of…
Medical Physics Python Exercises #1
The radiation oncology medical physics group at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have started a series of tutorials on the Python language. For the second tutorial, we will be discussing solutions to a few example medical physics exercises, detailed…
Python for Medical Physicists #1
Python is a programming language that is popular among scientists, including medical physicists. The radiation oncology medical physics group at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital have started a series of tutorials on the Python language. These will serve as an…