Plaque Files Menu

Plaque files provide a means of saving customized plaque designs. Plaque files can contain empty plaques, or they can include embedded radionuclide sources (e.g. BEBIG Ru plaques).

Eye Physics recommends file naming conventions to help catagorize and organize your plaque files. For example, the names of plaque files that contain an embedded picture of the plaque face should include in tag '-p'. Pictures help to assure proper plaque selection and placement of radionuclide sources in the plaque.

Plaque files should be stored in the Plaques folder that is found in the Plaque Simulator Data folder. When Plaque Simulator is launched it recursively searches its master data folder for files with the extension '.iplq6'. All folders are parsed except for those whose names are enclosed in parentheses, e.g. (Disabled Plaques). The parentheses instruct PS to ignore that folder for file searching purposes. Version 5 binary files with the extension '.iplq' (created by PS version 5.38 or greater) may be imported. Their parameters MUST then be manually updated using the various PS6 plaque editors, and then the plaques MUST be resaved as version 6 (.iplq6) files. Do NOT use version 5 files for treatment planning until they have been updated and carefully tested. After importing and converting a version 5 file, move it to a folder that is ignored by PS parsing as soon as possible.

All of the plaque files which PS finds in the Plaque Simulator Data folder are listed for quick access in the Plaque Files submenu of the Plaque menu. The list is initially created when PS is launched and can be manually updated if you modify the contents of the Plaque Simulator Data/Plaques folder after launching PS. The Plaque Files submenu organizes the list of plaque files into 5 catagories (COMS, ROPES, BEBIG, Eye Physics and Other) according to the file file naming conventions discussed above.

PlaqueEP
PlaqueFilesMenuEP
PlaqueFilesEP
  • Plaques with filenames containing the key sequence 'EP' will be placed in the Eye Physics submenu.
  • These are some of the Eye Physics (EP) files initially installed with PS6.
  • Plaques with file names tagged as being notched (e.g. -n, -wn or -dn) appear in blue text.

PlaqueFilesMenuCOMS
PlaqueFilesCOMS
  • Plaques with filenames containing the sequence 'COMS' will be placed in the COMS submenu.
  • These are some of the COMS files initially installed with PS6.
  • Plaques with file names tagged as being notched (e.g. -n) appear in blue text.

PlaqueFilesMenuROPES
PlaqueFilesROPES
  • Plaques with filenames containing the key sequence 'ROPES' will be placed in the ROPES submenu.
  • These are some of the ROPES files initially installed with PS6.

PlaqueFilesMenuBEBIG
PlaqueFilesBEBIG
    • Plaques with filenames containing the key sequence 'BEBIG' or one of the 16 standard BEBIG Ru plaque names ('CCA', 'CCB', 'CCD' etc...) will be placed in the BEBIG submenu. The key 'BEBIG' has higher priority than 'COMS' so you can combine the keys as illustrated.
    • These are some of the BEBIG files initially installed with PS6.
    • Plaques with file names tagged as being notched (e.g. -n) appear in blue text.

PlaqueFilesMenuOther
PlaqueFilesOther
  • Plaques with filenames containing the key sequence 'USC', or that were created by PS version 5 (.iplq files greater than version 5.38), or that do not fit any of the other catagories will be placed in the Other submenu.
  • These are some of the other files initially installed with PS6.

Opening a Plaque from the File Menu

You can also open a plaque file when the Plaque Window is the frontmost window and then selecting Open Plaque... from the File Menu.

OpenPlaque
OpenPlaqueFile