DICOM RTPLAN Control Point MU Extraction Tool (Python Script)

📦 What This Tool Does

This Python script allows you to extract monitor units (MU) at each control point from a DICOM RT Plan.

Instead of just seeing total beam MU, you can:

✔ Compute MU at each control point

✔ Calculate segment MU between control points

✔ Analyze delivery for VMAT, IMRT, and segmented fields

🧠 Why This Matters

In DICOM RT Plan, control points store cumulative meterset weights, not actual MU.

This tool converts that information into clinically meaningful monitor units, enabling:

• Plan QA analysis
• Delivery verification
• Research and scripting workflows
• Deeper understanding of treatment delivery

🎯 Who This Is For

• Medical physicists
• Dosimetrists
• Researchers working with DICOM RT Plan
• Anyone building automation or QA tools

🚀 Bonus Insight

The same DICOM logic applies across many delivery types — once you understand control points, you unlock a deeper layer of treatment plan analysis.

🛠️💡 Need customization? Contact me to adapt this tool to your workflow.