Alas, it is true. This blog has gone the way of so many others before it. What happened is that a project that was on the back burner got started again right after I started posting here. This is a good thing; I’m really excited about this new project.
It’s called RadPy, and it’s an attempt to create an open source suite of analysis tools for radiation therapy data. Mike Tallhamer originally came up with the idea, and the two of us have been working on it for a few months now. We’ve just released a very, very preliminary version with limited functionality. Hopefully, in a few more months we will have a more full featured release.
RadPy is based on plugins so that anyone can contribute their analysis code to the suite. Most physicists have software tools they have written to manage the data generated in their clinical practice. If the code I have written is any example, these tools are not very user friendly. They also are usually not tested by independent users. The goal of RadPy is to provide a usable framework to distribute and test these tools. By making the tools open source, they can be checked for bugs and the overall reliability of these programs should be increased.
Anyway, I’ve been holding off on posting while I went on a binge of RadPy coding. Originally, I wanted to post here at least three times a week. I probably will not come anywhere near that now, but I will still post items as they strike my fancy. They probably won’t be on a grand scale like the “What is Radiation Therapy?” series, though.
So if you are reading this, sorry about the extended absence. I hope you stick around for the new era of sporadic updates.
