Performing radiation therapy research using the open-source SlicerRT toolkit

Radiation therapy (RT) is a common treatment option for a wide variety of cancer types. Despite significant improvements in this technique over the past years, software tools for research in RT are limited to either expensive, closed, proprietary applications or heterogeneous sets of open-source software packages with limited scope, reliability, and user support. Our SlicerRT toolkit aspires to overcome these limitations by providing an extensive set of RT research tools leveraging the advanced visualization and image analysis features of its base platform 3D Slicer.