Four-Dimensional Dose Reconstruction for Scanned Proton Therapy Using Liver 4DCT-MRI.

Bernatowicz, Kinga; Peroni, Marta; Perrin, Rosalind; Weber, Damien Charles; Lomax, Antony (2016). Four-Dimensional Dose Reconstruction for Scanned Proton Therapy Using Liver 4DCT-MRI. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 95(1), pp. 216-223. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.02.050

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PURPOSE

Four-dimensional computed tomography-magnetic resonance imaging (4DCT-MRI) is an image-processing technique for simulating many 4DCT data sets from a static reference CT and motions extracted from 4DMRI studies performed using either volunteers or patients. In this work, different motion extraction approaches were tested using 6 liver cases, and a detailed comparison between 4DCT-MRI and 4DCT was performed.

METHODS AND MATERIALS

4DCT-MRI has been generated using 2 approaches. The first approach used motion extracted from 4DMRI as being "most similar" to that of 4DCT from the same patient (subject-specific), and the second approach used the most similar motion obtained from a motion library derived from 4DMRI liver studies of 13 healthy volunteers (population-based). The resulting 4DCT-MRI and 4DCTs were compared using scanned proton 4D dose calculations (4DDC).

RESULTS

Dosimetric analysis showed that 93% ± 8% of points inside the clinical target volume (CTV) agreed between 4DCT and subject-specific 4DCT-MRI (gamma analysis: 3%/3 mm). The population-based approach however showed lower dosimetric agreement with only 79% ± 14% points in the CTV reaching the 3%/3 mm criteria.

CONCLUSIONS

4D CT-MRI extends the capabilities of motion modeling for dose calculations by accounting for realistic and variable motion patterns, which can be directly employed in clinical research studies. We have found that the subject-specific liver modeling appears more accurate than the population-based approach. The former is particularly interesting for clinical applications, such as improved target delineation and 4D dose reconstruction for patient-specific QA to allow for inter- and/or intra-fractional plan corrections.

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:

0360-3016

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Beatrice Scheidegger

Date Deposited:

26 Apr 2017 15:53

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:02

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.02.050

PubMed ID:

27084643

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.94282

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/94282

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