Impact of beam angle choice on pencil beam scanning breath-hold proton therapy for lung lesions.

Gorgisyan, Jenny; Perrin, Rosalind; Lomax, Antony J; Persson, Gitte F; Josipovic, Mirjana; Engelholm, Svend Aage; Weber, Damien Charles; Munck Af Rosenschold, Per (2017). Impact of beam angle choice on pencil beam scanning breath-hold proton therapy for lung lesions. Acta oncologica, 56(6), pp. 853-859. Acta Oncologica 10.1080/0284186X.2017.1287950

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INTRODUCTION

The breath-hold technique inter alia has been suggested to mitigate the detrimental effect of motion on pencil beam scanned (PBS) proton therapy dose distributions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the robustness of incident proton beam angles to day-to-day anatomical variations in breath-hold.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Single field PBS plans at five degrees increments in the transversal plane were made and water-equivalent path lengths (WEPLs) were derived on the planning breath-hold CT (BHCT) for 30 patients diagnosed with locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), early stage NSCLC or lung metastasis. Our treatment planning system was subsequently used to recalculate the plans and derive WEPL on a BHCT scan acquired at the end of the treatment. Changes to the V95%, D95 and mean target dose were evaluated.

RESULTS

The difference in WEPL as a function of the beam angle was highly patient specific, with a median of 3.3 mm (range: 0.0-41.1 mm). Slightly larger WEPL differences were located around the lateral or lateral anterior/posterior beam angles. Linear models revealed that changes in dose were associated to the changes in WEPL and the tumor baseline shift (p < 0.05).

CONCLUSIONS

WEPL changes and tumor baseline shift can serve as reasonable surrogates for dosimetric uncertainty of the target coverage and are well-suited for routine evaluation of plan robustness. The two lateral beam angles are not recommended to use for PBS proton therapy of lung cancer patients treated in breath-hold, due to the poor robustness for several of the patients evaluated.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Radiation Oncology
UniBE Contributor:	Weber, Damien Charles
Subjects:	600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
ISSN:	0284-186X
Publisher:	Acta Oncologica
Language:	English
Submitter:	Beatrice Scheidegger
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2018 14:14
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:09
Publisher DOI:	10.1080/0284186X.2017.1287950
PubMed ID:	28464744
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/109296