Golden Rule
Research Software for Visualizing and Analyzing Radiation Therapy Data
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Summary
Golden Rule is a specialized software system for researchers, educators, and developers in the radiation therapy community. Golden Rule imports the complex digital medical data used in imaging (DICOM) and radiation therapy (DICOM RT) and offers a host of visualization and analysis tools customized to help us study, learn, and improve. Note: Golden Rule is not intended for clinical use or clinical decision support.
Golden Rule can (1) import local files, (2) receive data as a DICOM storage class user (SCU), and (3) integrate directly with the cloud-based ProKnow system offered by Elekta.
What tools does Golden Rule have? What can Golden Rule do? The answers, respectively: It has lots of tools and does lots of things. Contact me (Ben) directly at canislupusllc@gmail.com to request the software. I will probably inquire about your specific project, intended use, and goals in order to qualify you and/or your institution.
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Installation
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Current Version
Version: 1.2.9286.19356
Released: June 4, 2025
Changes: This version has updates that fix some problems in accessing/downloading ProKnow data due to a recent ProKnow release that broke their own .NET API package. The problems were (1) slow access to data and (2) errors downloading/loading CT, MR, and PET data, and those problems should be resolved with this version, which includes an updated ProKnow API package.
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Training
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