DoseLab began as a clinical and research tool for U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Center. It was written primarily by Nathan Childress as part of his Ph.D. dissertation on film dosimetry, under the supervision of his advisor Dr. Isaac Rosen. Additional coding was performed by Dr. Isaac Rosen and Terry Vantreese. It was designed to quickly perform IMRT QA comparisons while retaining the data for future analysis. It was distributed worldwide under the MIT Open Source license, and has been downloaded over 5,000 times. Its original source code is copyright Nathan Childress and U.T. MD Anderson Cancer Cancer. The original version can still be found at Sourceforge.net.
As DoseLab’s popularity grew, its maintenance and development became more than a full-time job. Dr. Childress performed a complete overhaul of DoseLab by adding dozens of features, upgrading each image analysis tool and processing routine to be more robust, improving overall stability, enhancing the clinical workflow, and assembling a team of experts to provide customer support. In addition to modifying more than 40% of DoseLab’s source code, many new features were added. The end result is DoseLab Pro: a fast, simple, and powerful software system that can perform everything from patient-specific SBRT QAs to advanced research analyses using automatically-generated clinical data.
