2007 PLanUNC Users Workshop

Details from the 2006 Users Workshop, including information on lectures, labs, and pictures, can be found here

The NCI, NCRR, and UNC will continue to sponsor this annual workshop on the use and modification of PLanUNC. The course will be held in Chapel Hill, NC each spring. Participation will be limited to 15-20 attendees. The course will include lecture and laboratory sections.

Registration for the workshop is free. Attendees will be responsible for transportation and housing costs. Please contact Eric Schreiber (erics@med.unc.edu) for details on registration and attending the workshop

The goals for the PLanUNC workshop are to provide instruction and experience in using, commissioning, and modifying PLanUNC to suit the user community's research and educational needs. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Operate PLanUNC as a basic user, including
   1. Image importation
   2. Beam management
   3. Dose evaluation
   4. IMRT planning
2. Customize PLanUNC for their own facilities and equipment, including
   1. specifying accelerator geometries (jaws, mlc, source models)
   2. adjust the dose engine to match measured output
   3. select and add to available modalities
   4. develop arbitrary beam modifiers
3. Interface existing programs and custom calculations with PLanUNC, including,
   1. dose distributions generated from external sources (Monte Carlo, brachy calcs, old data from defunct planning systems, etc)
   2. beam sequences from other planning tools
   3. images from a variety of sources (different CT formats, MR, PET, etc)
4. Understand the PLanUNC source code sufficiently that basic modifications can be made to the code to suit a specific research purpose, including
   1. develop novel accelerators or portions of accelerators
   2. insert arbitrary dose engines into the main code
   3. adjust patient/accelerator position/orientation in real time for motion studies
   4. output an arbitrary selection of PLanUNC information for use and/or interface with external programs
   5. Include additional analysis tools, such as new EUD, NTCP, alpha/beta data, etc.
   6. Change the basic interface to suit their local needs