2006 PLanUNC Workshop

The first Annual PLanUNC Workshop was held on April 26 and 27, 2006 in Chapel Hill, NC. The lectures and labs presented in the workshop can be found in the 2006 workshop schedule. The workshop was attended by a mixture of experienced and first-time PLanUNC users from around the United States and Europe.

More pictures from the workshop 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 information for the 2007 Workshop will be posted on this website in Fall 2006. Registration for the workshop is free. Attendees will be responsible for transportation and housing costs. Details about the time and location of the 2007 workshop will posted as soon as they become available.

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