Gridization of IMAGINE, dose calculation system, for the remote assistance of radiation therapy

Saito, Kimiaki  ; Teshima, Naoya; Suzuki, Yoshio   ; Nakajima, Norihiro  ; Saito, Hidetoshi*; Kunieda, Etsuo*; Fujisaki, Tatsuya*

We research and develop IMAGINE as the dose calculation system, which can calculate the dose distribution in the patient body very fast and with high precision by a super parallel calculation, for the contribution to QoS of the radiation therapy and the development of the eading-edge treatment technology. When IMAGINE system will be actually operated, it is anticipated that IMAGINE system accepts the large amount of requests of the dose calculation from several radiotherapy facilities at the same time. So, we entertained that the dose calculation was distributed by the gridization of IMAGINE system and the waiting time of its was minimized. In this article, we introduce the problem about the gridization of IMAGINE system, the solution to it and the method to easily enable the gridization of the application without the programming skill.