| Welcome to PyBDC Documentation! | |
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| Python toolkit for calculating dosage for breast CT.\ | |
| The following software enables accurate dose estimation for one or various breast exposures specifically for breast CT. The software can be used on Windows and Mac operating systems and using a graphical user interface. The mode is further explained below along with an overview of the methods, how to choose a method, the program inputs and buttons, the incident spectrum format, images of the GUI, and the accompanying data files. | |
| Table of Contents | |
| ================== | |
| .. toctree:: | |
| :hidden: | |
| Home <self> | |
| .. toctree:: | |
| :maxdepth: 2 | |
| install | |
| methods | |
| gui | |
| examples | |
| Methods Overview | |
| ================== | |
| Currently supports the following plugins: | |
| * Sarno Any Spectrum | |
| * Hernandez Any Spectrum | |
| * Sarno 49 kVp W Spectra | |
| * Sechopoulus 49 kvP W Spectra | |
| Detailed descriptions on individual methods are provided in section :ref:`Methods Overview`. | |
| Installation | |
| ================== | |
| **Clone PyBDC repository** | |
| git clone https://github.com/harshamarupudi56/PyBDC.git | |
| **Run the following commands to install required dependencies** | |
| apt-get -y install python3.11-tk | |
| apt-get -y install pip | |
| cd PyBDC | |
| pip install -r requirements.txt | |
| **The required dependencies located in requirements.txt** | |
| customtkinter==5.2.2 | |
| matplotlib==3.8.0 | |
| numpy==1.26.0 | |
| pandas==1.3.4 | |
| **Run PyBDC** | |
| python3 PyBDC.py | |
| **PyBDC Team:** | |
| Harsha Marupudi, Jospeh Manus, Bahaa Ghammraoui | |
| **Citations:** | |
| Sarno, A., Mettivier, G., Di Lillo, F., & Russo, P. (2017). A Monte Carlo study of monoenergetic and polyenergetic normalized glandular dose (DgN) coefficients in mammography. Physics in medicine and biology, 62(1), 306–325. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/62/1/306 | |
| Hernandez, A. M., Becker, A. E., & Boone, J. M. (2019). Updated breast CT dose coefficients (DgNCT ) using patient-derived breast shapes and heterogeneous fibroglandular distributions. Medical physics, 46(3), 1455–1466. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13391 | |
| Sechopoulos, I., Feng, S. S., & D'Orsi, C. J. (2010). Dosimetric characterization of a dedicated breast computed tomography clinical prototype. Medical physics, 37(8), 4110–4120. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3457331 | |