pyDVH

pydvh is a package for generating and reading DVH exported from VARIAN Eclipse treatment planning system with Python.

Presently, pyDVH parses VARIAN Eclipse DVH files. It has been tested with Eclipse v15.6.

The package is available on pypi . To install the package, just run:

pip install pydvh
# to upgrade from previous version, run:
pip install --upgrade pydvh

To read and plot a DVH for a specific structure use the following code snippet:

from pydvh import DVHType, DVHData, DVHFile
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def test_cdvh_plot(self):
        dvhfile = DVHFile.from_file_eclipse("P1_Summed_Plan_DDVH.txt")
        structures = dvhfile.structure_names()
        ddvh = dvhfile.get_dvh_by_name(structures[0])
        cdvh = ddvh.to_cumulative()
        # ddvh = cdvh.to_differential()

        dose_array, volume_array = zip(*cdvh.curve())
        plt.xlabel(f"Physical dose ({cdvh.dose_unit})")
        plt.ylabel(f"Volume ({cdvh.volume_unit})")
        plt.grid()
        plt.plot(dose_array, volume_array)
        plt.savefig("CDVH_bladder.png")
        plt.show()

The outcome is:

Dr. Ilias Sachpazidis

Medical software engineering

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