Radiotherapy system with advanced graphical user interface

1. A radiotherapy apparatus, comprising:

a memory for storing a plurality of images; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions for:

providing a carousel to display thumbnail images corresponding to the plurality of images to a user;

receiving an input from the user for selecting at least one thumbnail image displayed in the carousel;

generating a graphical user interface configured for displaying to the user at least one image stored in the memory corresponding to the at least one thumbnail image selected from the carousel; and

generating a trend chart to display the graphical user interface, wherein a point on the trend chart is linked to a corresponding thumbnail image in the carousel,

wherein the thumbnail images displayed in the carousel are in chronological order.

2. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of images comprise at least one of: an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) image, a Computed Tomography (CT) image, an x-ray image, a radiotherapy portal image, a stereo pair of portal images, a stereo pair of x-ray images, a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image, a Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image, and an ultrasound image.

3. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the carousel rotates from left to right or from right to left.

4. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the user selection of a particular thumbnail image displayed in the carousel results in a corresponding image being displayed in a main viewer.

5. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to execute instructions for:

creating a scatter plot including one or more offsets;

receiving a user input for selecting a particular offset in the scatter plot; and

displaying an image stored in the memory corresponding to the selected particular offset.

6. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the scatter plot is supplemented with a mannequin icon indicating anatomical axes of a patient, and visual presentation of the mannequin is updated to reflect a current viewing orientation of the scatter plot data relative to the patient when the user selects a particular viewing direction for the scatter plot.

7. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface comprises at least one of a cellular phone interface, a tablet interface, and a touch screen interface of a handheld device.

8. A method for treating a patient with a radiotherapy device, comprising:

storing a plurality of images of one or more patients in a memory;

selecting a group of images from the stored plurality of images stored in the memory;

loading a carousel with thumbnail images of the selected group of images;

displaying the thumbnail images in chronological order in the carousel;

receiving a user selection of at least one thumbnail image from the carousel;

correlating the selection of the thumbnail image to a corresponding image stored in the memory;

displaying the corresponding image stored in the memory on a user selected area in a graphical user interface; and

generating a trend chart to display in the graphical user interface, wherein a point on the trend chart is linked to a corresponding thumbnail image in the carousel.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising rotating the thumbnail images in the carousel, wherein the carousel rotates from left to right or rotates from right to left.

10. The method of claim 8 , further comprising arranging the thumbnail images according to treatment time.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of images comprise at least one of: an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) image, a Computed Tomography (CT) image, an x-ray image, a radiotherapy portal image, a stereo pair of portal images, a stereo pair of x-ray images, a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) image, a Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image, or an ultrasound image.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the selected group of images are selected based on at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter includes at least one of: a particular patient; a particular organ; a particular date; a particular range of dates; or a particular disease.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising

receiving a request from the user to group the plurality of images stored in the memory, wherein the request includes at least one of a keyboard command, a GUI toolbar item selection, or a movement or gesture created with a pointing device.

14. A method for treating a patient with a radiotherapy device, comprising:

storing a plurality of images of one or more patients in a memory;

selecting a group of images from the stored plurality of images stored in the memory;

loading a carousel with thumbnail images of the selected group of images;

displaying the thumbnails images in chronological order in the carousel;

receiving a user selection of at least one thumbnail image from the carousel;

correlating the selection of the thumbnail image to a corresponding image stored in the memory;

displaying the correlated image stored in the memory on a user selected area in a user-interface; and

creating a trend chart, wherein the trend chart comprises at least one of:

a plurality of Superior/Inferior offset values;

a plurality of Left/Right offset values; or

a plurality of Anterior/Posterior offset values.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein each offset value is based on a particular image of the patient.

16. The method of claim 8 , further comprising,

receiving a user input for selecting a particular thumbnail image in the carousel; and

placing the selected thumbnail image in a front position of the carousel.

17. The radiotherapy apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the thumbnail images are augmented with visual indicators of metadata associated with the thumbnail images.