RT Simulator User's Guide
Connecting to the Litebox at USC/Norris
CT images at USC Norris are downloaded via a DECnet connection from the Siemens Somatom Plus-S CT scanner to a Litebox station located in the Radiation Oncology department. The Litebox is a circa 1991 Macintosh Quadra 700 computer with an upgraded hard drive. It is physically located in the treatment planning room. To transfer a set of patient images to your planning computer you will make an Appletalk network connection to the Litebox, copy the images, and then disconnect from the Litebox.
To make a new network connection from your Mac to the Litebox, select Chooser under the Apple menu.
The Litebox is in the Health Science Campus Appletalk zone. This will be the default. Scroll through the list of computers in this zone until you find NORLB2. Select NORLB2 and click the OK button.
In order to connect to NORLB2 type Oncology in the name field, enter the password, and click the Connect button.
Select the Litebox HD partition on NORLB2.
An icon representing the Litebox HD partition on NORLB2 will appear on your Mac's desktop. Double click on this icon to open the Litebox HD.
Navigate through the folders on Litebox HD (by double clicking) until you can find and open the .Patients folder. Drag the folder containing your patient's images from .Patients on NORLB2 to your computer.
You can bypass almost all of this process by using the MacOS Finder to create an alias to the .Patients folder on NORLB2. If you already have an alias to the Litebox patients folder on your computer, simply double click on the alias icon and enter the password.
To end your network connection to the Litebox, simply drag the Litebox HD icon on your Mac's desktop into the trash.
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