License

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Disclaimer of liability

The data provided by OpenDose is intended for use by the nuclear medicine research community for the purpose of evaluating absorbed doses from diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. It is not intended that this data be used in the clinical management of patients. Through access to this website, the investigator agrees to use the data for educational and research purposes only, and agrees to hold the members of the OpenDose collaboration harmless from liability arising from its use.

About

This website was initially created by Maxime Chauvin. It was later redeveloped by Kacper Piątek, transitioning from the original PHP framework to Django, with additional features and functionality added to enhance the user experience. The website follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, where each section of the website is divided into three key components: the Model, which manages data access and validation independently of the user interface; the View, which displays the information (charts, tables) from the Model; and the Controller, which processes user input and translates it into actions for the Model or View. While the Model and Controller run on the server, most View components, such as chart rendering, are executed client-side using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax). This approach offloads some of the workload from the server, allowing it to better handle high volumes of simultaneous user requests. The site is built with HTML5, CSS3, Python (Django), and JavaScript, and the open-source Bootstrap framework ensures that it’s responsive across all devices, including computers, tablets, and smartphones. The interactive charts are powered by the Plotly graphing library, and data access is managed via PostgreSQL queries. The website is hosted on a Fedora virtual machine with 4 virtual CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 250 GB of storage.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Yves-Marie Gouesnard for the initial design of the website.

OpenDose acknowledges the support of the following High Performance Computing centers for providing computing resources:
https://www.ziemowit.hpc.polsl.pl/en
https://cc.in2p3.fr/en
https://www.calmip.univ-toulouse.fr
https://nci.org.au

OpenDose acknowledges the support of France Grilles and EGI for providing computing resources and services on the French National Grid Infrastructure and on the EGI Infrastructure.
http://www.france-grilles.fr/home
https://www.egi.eu

Some of the data production was achieved using the biomed Virtual Organisation of the EGI infrastructure, with the dedicated support of resource centres BEINJING-LCG2, IN2P3- IRES, OBSPM, INFN-FERRARA, GARR-01-DIR, INFN- CATANIA, INFN-ROMA3, INFN-BARI, CREATIS-INSA- LYON, NCG-INGRID-PT, INFN-PISA, CESNET-MetaCloud and CLOUFIN, resource centres in UK hosted by GridPP collaboration, and the additional support of the resource centres listed here: http://operations-portal.egi.eu/vapor/resources/GL2Browser?VOfilter=biomed.