Why CERR?

CERR (pronounced 'sir') is a software platform for developing and sharing research results in radiation therapy treatment planning.

CERR is written in the widely-used Matlab language (version 6.1 or later), allowing for low-cost development of visualization and analysis tools.

CERR will import and display treatment plans from a wide variety of commercial or academic treatment planning systems (including both the RTOG format and now the DICOM-RT format thanks to Emiliano Spezi's contributions).

CERR provides a common filetype for the creation of multi-institutional treatment plan databases for various types of research studies, including dose-volume-outcomes analyses and IMRT treatment planning comparisons.

 

Requirements

• Windows (tested on 2000/XP, probably also OK on NT and even 98).

• Matlab version 6.1 or later (tested mostly on version 6.5) for non-compiled version.

• 128 MB RAM for a small archive.  256 MB RAM at least would be recommended.

• Matlab Toolboxes are not required, except for the Image Processing Toolbox to use Emiliano Spezi's DICOM-RT import capabilities.

A compiled version of CERR for Linux is in the works.

Also, we have tested CERR running on a Sun workstation (The machine was a SunV880, 8x900mhz 16GB ram, SunXVR-500 Graphics card, running SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-27 sun4u as reported by Matlab. Matlab version 6.5.0.180913a R13)