Introduction

A lot of Pinnacle system are still functional. However, there will no longer have development under Pinnacle and a lot of radiation oncology centres need to go away from Pinnacle since the disinterest of Philips Medical System.

This script here is dedicated to the conversion of Pinnacle TARFile to DICOM.

The tar files are created by Pinnacle containing one patient per tar file.

The chance is that Australian physicists (pymedphys see below) have worked to to design a python tool that does just this.

The different steps are:

• For each of these patients, convert all plans to DICOM

Python tools for converting

Create the environment for the conversion

conda create -n pymedphys python=3.10

followed by a

conda activate pymedphys

Note: python 3.10 contains the tarfile library which will be important

for unpacking Pinnacle archives. In fact any python

= 3.5 contains tarfile.

pymedphys

https://github.com/pymedphys/pymedphys

installed with :

$ pip install pymedphys[user]==0.39.3

The pymedphys command

$ pymedphys experimental pinnacle export data/PatientName_Firstname_PID_psqlNumber.tar -o out/

poetry (optional)

It is necessary to install poetry to be able to work around a color name problem for DICOM structures. In Pinnacle, it was allowed for a long time to choose as color "inverse_grey". This name corresponds to a color gradient. poetry tool allows to install the GitHub version of pymedphys. It is intended for developers who want to contribute to pymedphys, and and also to users who want to take advantage of unpublished (not yet released) unpublished (not yet released).

https://python-poetry.org/docs/

installed with (being in the pymedphys environment of course):

$ pip install poetry

To install pymedphys itself, you need to be in the GitHub directory of pymedphys and run the following commands:

$ poetry install -E all

$ poetry run pre-commit install

$ poetry run pymedphys dev tests

The last command allows you to see if the current version is functional. One of the benefits is to take advantage of a more recent update to avoid failures on a color problem (inverse_grey).

PatientNameToPath tool

Not necessary if you do not work with a process of reconciliation with Aria.

PatientNameToPath tool