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Winter JD, Reddy V, Li W, Craig T, Raman S. Impact of technological advances in treatment planning, image guidance, and treatment delivery on target margin design for prostate cancer radiotherapy: an updated review. Br J Radiol 2024; 97:31-40. [PMID: 38263844 PMCID: PMC11027310 DOI: 10.1093/bjr/tqad041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2023] [Revised: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Recent innovations in image guidance, treatment delivery, and adaptive radiotherapy (RT) have created a new paradigm for planning target volume (PTV) margin design for patients with prostate cancer. We performed a review of the recent literature on PTV margin selection and design for intact prostate RT, excluding post-operative RT, brachytherapy, and proton therapy. Our review describes the increased focus on prostate and seminal vesicles as heterogenous deforming structures with further emergence of intra-prostatic GTV boost and concurrent pelvic lymph node treatment. To capture recent innovations, we highlight the evolution in cone beam CT guidance, and increasing use of MRI for improved target delineation and image registration and supporting online adaptive RT. Moreover, we summarize new and evolving image-guidance treatment platforms as well as recent reports of novel immobilization strategies and motion tracking. Our report also captures recent implementations of artificial intelligence to support image guidance and adaptive RT. To characterize the clinical impact of PTV margin changes via model-based risk estimates and clinical trials, we highlight recent high impact reports. Our report focusses on topics in the context of PTV margins but also showcase studies attempting to move beyond the PTV margin recipes with robust optimization and probabilistic planning approaches. Although guidelines exist for target margins conventional using CT-based image guidance, further validation is required to understand the optimal margins for online adaptation either alone or combined with real-time motion compensation to minimize systematic and random uncertainties in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.
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- Jeff D Winter
- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON M5G 2M9, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1P5, Canada
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Tengler B, Künzel LA, Hagmüller M, Mönnich D, Boeke S, Wegener D, Gani C, Zips D, Thorwarth D. Full daily re-optimization improves plan quality during online adaptive radiotherapy. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 2024; 29:100534. [PMID: 38298884 PMCID: PMC10827578 DOI: 10.1016/j.phro.2024.100534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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Background and purpose Daily online treatment plan adaptation requires a fast workflow and planning process. Current online planning consists of adaptation of a predefined reference plan, which might be suboptimal in cases of large anatomic changes. The aim of this study was to investigate plan quality differences between the current online re-planning approach and a complete re-optimization. Material and methods Magnetic resonance linear accelerator reference plans for ten prostate cancer patients were automatically generated using particle swarm optimization (PSO). Adapted plans were created for each fraction using (1) the current re-planning approach and (2) full PSO re-optimization and evaluated overall compliance with institutional dose-volume criteria compared to (3) clinically delivered fractions. Relative volume differences between reference and daily anatomy were assessed for planning target volumes (PTV60, PTV57.6), rectum and bladder and correlated with dose-volume results. Results The PSO approach showed significantly higher adherence to dose-volume criteria than the reference approach and clinical fractions (p < 0.001). In 74 % of PSO plans at most one criterion failed compared to 56 % in the reference approach and 41 % in clinical plans. A fair correlation between PTV60 D98% and relative bladder volume change was observed for the reference approach. Bladder volume reductions larger than 50 % compared to the reference plan recurrently decreased PTV60 D98% below 56 Gy. Conclusion Complete re-optimization maintained target coverage and organs at risk sparing even after large anatomic variations. Re-planning based on daily magnetic resonance imaging was sufficient for small variations, while large variations led to decreasing target coverage and organ-at-risk sparing.
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- Benjamin Tengler
- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Dresden, Germany: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany
- Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Biomedical Physics. Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
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Tanaka S, Kadoya N, Ishizawa M, Katsuta Y, Arai K, Takahashi H, Xiao Y, Takahashi N, Sato K, Takeda K, Jingu K. Evaluation of Unity 1.5 T MR-linac plan quality in patients with prostate cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2023; 24:e14122. [PMID: 37559561 PMCID: PMC10691646 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.14122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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The Unity magnetic resonance (MR) linear accelerator (MRL) with MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy (MRgART) is capable of online MRgART where images are acquired on the treatment day and the radiation treatment plan is immediately replanned and performed. We evaluated the MRgART plan quality and plan reproducibility of the Unity MRL in patients with prostate cancer. There were five low- or moderate-risk and five high-risk patients who received 36.25 Gy or 40 Gy, respectively in five fractions. All patients underwent simulation magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and five online adaptive MRI. We created plans for 5, 7, 9, 16, and 20 beams and for 60, 100, and 150 segments. We evaluated the target and organ doses for different number of beams and segments, respectively. Variation in dose constraint between the simulation plan and online adaptive plan was measured for each patient to assess plan reproducibility. The plan quality improved with the increasing number of beams. However, the proportion of significantly improved dose constraints decreased as the number of beams increased. For some dose parameters, there were statistically significant differences between 60 and 100 segments, and 100 and 150 segments. The plan of five beams exhibited limited reproducibility. The number of segments had minimal impact on plan reproducibility, but 60 segments sometimes failed to meet dose constraints for online adaptive plan. The optimization and delivery time increased with the number of beams and segments. We do not recommend using five or fewer beams for a reproducible and high-quality plan in the Unity MRL. In addition, many number of segments and beams may help meet dose constraints during online adaptive plan. Treatment with the Unity MRL should be performed with the appropriate number of beams and segments to achieve a good balance among plan quality, delivery time, and optimization time.
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- Shohei Tanaka
- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiological TechnologySchool of Health SciencesFaculty of MedicineTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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- Radiation TechnologyTohoku University HospitalSendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiological TechnologySchool of Health SciencesFaculty of MedicineTohoku UniversitySendaiJapan
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- Department of Radiation OncologyTohoku University Graduate School of MedicineSendaiJapan
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Caricato P, Trivellato S, Pellegrini R, Montanari G, Daniotti MC, Bordigoni B, Faccenda V, Panizza D, Meregalli S, Bonetto E, Voet P, Arcangeli S, De Ponti E. Updating approach for lexicographic optimization-based planning to improve cervical cancer plan quality. Discov Oncol 2023; 14:180. [PMID: 37775613 PMCID: PMC10541351 DOI: 10.1007/s12672-023-00800-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND To investigate the capability of a not-yet commercially available fully automated lexicographic optimization (LO) planning algorithm, called mCycle (Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden), to further improve the plan quality of an already-validated Wish List (WL) pushing on the organs-at-risk (OAR) sparing without compromising target coverage and plan delivery accuracy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-four mono-institutional consecutive cervical cancer Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) plans delivered between November 2019 and April 2022 (50 Gy/25 fractions) have been retrospectively selected. In mCycle the LO planning algorithm was combined with the a-priori multi-criterial optimization (MCO). Two versions of WL have been defined to reproduce manual plans (WL01), and to improve the OAR sparing without affecting minimum target coverage and plan delivery accuracy (WL02). Robust WLs have been tuned using a subset of 4 randomly selected patients. The remaining plans have been automatically re-planned by using the designed WLs. Manual plans (MP) and mCycle plans (mCP01 and mCP02) were compared in terms of dose distributions, complexity, delivery accuracy, and clinical acceptability. Two senior physicians independently performed a blind clinical evaluation, ranking the three competing plans. Furthermore, a previous defined global quality index has been used to gather into a single score the plan quality evaluation. RESULTS The WL tweaking requests 5 and 3 working days for the WL01 and the WL02, respectively. The re-planning took in both cases 3 working days. mCP01 best performed in terms of target coverage (PTV V95% (%): MP 98.0 [95.6-99.3], mCP01 99.2 [89.7-99.9], mCP02 96.9 [89.4-99.5]), while mCP02 showed a large OAR sparing improvement, especially in the rectum parameters (e.g., Rectum D50% (Gy): MP 41.7 [30.2-47.0], mCP01 40.3 [31.4-45.8], mCP02 32.6 [26.9-42.6]). An increase in plan complexity has been registered in mCPs without affecting plan delivery accuracy. In the blind comparisons, all automated plans were considered clinically acceptable, and mCPs were preferred over MP in 90% of cases. Globally, automated plans registered a plan quality score at least comparable to MP. CONCLUSIONS This study showed the flexibility of the Lexicographic approach in creating more demanding Wish Lists able to potentially minimize toxicities in RT plans.
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- Paolo Caricato
- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
- Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
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- Research Clinical Liaison, Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo Dei Tintori, Monza, Italy
- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Li W, Padayachee J, Navarro I, Winter J, Dang J, Raman S, Kong V, Berlin A, Catton C, Glicksman R, Malkov V, McPartlin A, Kataki K, Lindsay P, Chung P. Practice-based training strategy for therapist-driven prostate MR-Linac adaptive radiotherapy. Tech Innov Patient Support Radiat Oncol 2023; 27:100212. [PMID: 37265510 PMCID: PMC10230256 DOI: 10.1016/j.tipsro.2023.100212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023] Open
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Purpose To develop a practice-based training strategy to transition from radiation oncologist to therapist-driven prostate MR-Linac adaptive radiotherapy. Methods and materials In phase 1, 7 therapists independently contoured the prostate and organs-at-risk on T2-weighted MR images from 11 previously treated MR-Linac prostate patients. Contours were evaluated quantitatively (i.e. Dice similarity coefficient [DSC] calculated against oncologist generated online contours) and qualitatively (i.e. oncologist using a 5-point Likert scale; a score ≥ 4 was deemed a pass, a 90% pass rate was required to proceed to the next phase). Phase 2 consisted of supervised online workflow with therapists required no intervention from the oncologist on 10 total cases to advance. Phase 3 involved unsupervised therapist-driven workflow, with offline support from oncologists prior to the next fraction. Results In phase 1, the mean DSC was 0.92 (range 0.85-0.97), and mean Likert score was 3.7 for the prostate. Five therapists did not attain a pass rate (3-5 cases with prostate contour score < 4), underwent follow-up one-on-one review, and performed contours on a further training set (n = 5). Each participant completed a median of 12 (range 10-13) cases in phase 2; of 82 cases, minor direction were required from the oncologist on 5 regarding target contouring. Radiation oncologists reviewed 179 treatment fractions in phase 3, and deemed 5 cases acceptable but with suggestions for next fraction; all other cases were accepted without suggestions. Conclusion A training stepwise program was developed and successfully implemented to enable a therapist-driven workflow for online prostate MR-Linac adaptive radiotherapy.
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- Winnie Li
- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Rossi L, Breedveld S, Heijmen B. Per-fraction planning to enhance optimization degrees of freedom compared to the conventional single-plan approach. Phys Med Biol 2023; 68:175014. [PMID: 37524087 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/acec27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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Objective. In conventional radiotherapy, a single treatment plan is generated pre-treatment, and delivered in daily fractions. In this study, we propose to generate different treatment plans for all fractions ('Per-fraction' planning) to reduce cumulative organs at risk (OAR) doses. Per-fraction planning was compared to the 'Conventional' single-plan approach for non-coplanar 4 × 9.5 Gy prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).Approach. An in-house application for fully automated, non-coplanar multi-criterial treatment planning with integrated beam angle and fluence optimization was used for plan generations. For the Conventional approach, a single 12-beam non-coplanar IMRT plan with individualized beam angles was generated for each of the 20 included patients. In Per-fraction planning, four fraction plans were generated for each patient. For each fraction, a different set of patient-specific 12-beam configurations could be automatically selected. Per-fraction plans were sequentially generated by adding dose to already generated fraction plan(s). For each fraction, the cumulative- and fraction dose were simultaneously optimized, allowing some minor constraint violations in fraction doses, but not in cumulative.Main results. In the Per-fraction approach, on average 32.9 ± 3.1 [29;39] unique beams per patient were used. PTV doses in the separate Per-fraction plans were acceptable and highly similar to those in Conventional plans, while also fulfilling all OAR hard constraints. When comparing total cumulative doses, Per-fraction planning showed improved bladder sparing for all patients with reductions in Dmean of 22.6% (p= 0.0001) and in D1cc of 2.0% (p= 0.0001), reductions in patient volumes receiving 30% and 50% of the prescribed dose of 54.7% and 6.3%, respectively, and a 3.1% lower rectum Dmean (p= 0.007). Rectum D1cc was 4.1% higher (p= 0.0001) and Urethra dose was similar.Significance. In this proof-of-concept paper, Per-fraction planning resulted in several dose improvements in healthy tissues compared to the Conventional single-plan approach, for similar PTV dose. By keeping the number of beams per fraction the same as in Conventional planning, reported dosimetric improvements could be obtained without increase in fraction durations. Further research is needed to explore the full potential of the Per-fraction planning approach.
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- Linda Rossi
- Department of Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Lou Z, Cheng C, Mao R, Li D, Tian L, Li B, Lei H, Ge H. A novel automated planning approach for multi-anatomical sites cancer in Raystation treatment planning system. Phys Med 2023; 109:102586. [PMID: 37062102 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.102586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 04/18/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To develop an automated planning approach in Raystation and evaluate its feasibility in multiple clinical application scenarios. METHODS An automated planning approach (Ruiplan) was developed by using the scripting platform of Raystation. Radiotherapy plans were re-generated both automatically by using Ruiplan and manually. 60 patients, including 20 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), 20 patients with esophageal carcinoma (ESCA), and 20 patients with rectal cancer (RECA) were retrospectively enrolled in this study. Dosimetric and planning efficiency parameters of the automated plans (APs) and manual plans (MPs) were statistically compared. RESULTS For target coverage, APs yielded superior dose homogeneity in NPC and RECA, while maintaining similar dose conformity for all studied anatomical sites. For OARs sparing, APs led to significant improvement in most OARs sparing. The average planning time required for APs was reduced by more than 43% compared with MPs. Despite the increased monitor units (MUs) for NPC and RECA in APs, the beam-on time of APs and MPs had no statistical difference. Both the MUs and beam-on time of APs were significantly lower than that of MPs in ESCA. CONCLUSIONS This study developed a new automated planning approach, Ruiplan, it is feasible for multi-treatment techniques and multi-anatomical sites cancer treatment planning. The dose distributions of targets and OARs in the APs were similar or better than those in the MPs, and the planning time of APs showed a sharp reduction compared with the MPs. Thus, Ruiplan provides a promising approach for realizing automated treatment planning in the future.
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- Zhaoyang Lou
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China.
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Jayarathna S, Shen X, Chen RC, Li HH, Guida K. The effect of integrating knowledge-based planning with multicriteria optimization in treatment planning for prostate SBRT. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2023:e13940. [PMID: 36827178 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.13940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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Knowledge-based planning (KBP) and multicriteria optimization (MCO) are two powerful tools to assist treatment planners in achieving optimal target coverage and organ-at-risk (OAR) sparing. The purpose of this work is to investigate if integrating MCO with conventional KBP can further improve treatment plan quality for prostate cancer stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). A two-phase study was designed to investigate the impact of MCO and KBP in prostate SBRT treatment planning. The first phase involved the creation of a KBP model based on thirty clinical SBRT plans, generated by manual optimization (KBP_M). A ten-patient validation cohort was used to compare manual, MCO, and KBP_M optimization techniques. The next phase involved replanning the original model cohort with additional tradeoff optimization via MCO to create a second model, KBP_MCO. Plans were then generated using linear integration (KBP_M+MCO), non-linear integration (KBP_MCO), and a combination of integration methods (KBP_MCO+MCO). All plans were analyzed for planning target volume (PTV) coverage, OAR constraints, and plan quality metrics. Comparisons were generated to evaluate plan and model quality. Phase 1 highlighted the necessity of KBP and MCO in treatment planning, as both optimization methods improved plan quality metrics (Conformity and Heterogeneity Indices) and reduced mean rectal dose by 2 Gy, as compared to manual planning. Integrating MCO with KBP did not further improve plan quality, as little significance was seen over KBP or MCO alone. Principal component score (PCS) fitting showed KBP_MCO improved bladder and rectum estimated and modeled dose correlation by 5% and 22%, respectively; however, model improvements did not significantly impact plan quality. KBP and MCO have shown to reduce OAR dose while maintaining desired PTV coverage in this study. Further integration of KBP and MCO did not show marked improvements in treatment plan quality while requiring increased time in model generation and optimization time.
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- Sandun Jayarathna
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.,Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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Pogue JA, Cardenas CE, Cao Y, Popple RA, Soike M, Boggs DH, Stanley DN, Harms J. Leveraging intelligent optimization for automated, cardiac-sparing accelerated partial breast treatment planning. Front Oncol 2023; 13:1130119. [PMID: 36845685 PMCID: PMC9950631 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1130119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2023] Open
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Background Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) yields similar rates of recurrence and cosmetic outcomes as compared to whole breast radiation therapy (RT) when patients and treatment techniques are appropriately selected. APBI combined with stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a promising technique for precisely delivering high levels of radiation while avoiding uninvolved breast tissue. Here we investigate the feasibility of automatically generating high quality APBI plans in the Ethos adaptive workspace with a specific emphasis on sparing the heart. Methods Nine patients (10 target volumes) were utilized to iteratively tune an Ethos APBI planning template for automatic plan generation. Twenty patients previously treated on a TrueBeam Edge accelerator were then automatically replanned using this template without manual intervention or reoptimization. The unbiased validation cohort Ethos plans were benchmarked via adherence to planning objectives, a comparison of DVH and quality indices against the clinical Edge plans, and qualitative reviews by two board-certified radiation oncologists. Results 85% (17/20) of automated validation cohort plans met all planning objectives; three plans did not achieve the contralateral lung V1.5Gy objective, but all other objectives were achieved. Compared to the Eclipse generated plans, the proposed Ethos template generated plans with greater evaluation planning target volume (PTV_Eval) V100% coverage (p = 0.01), significantly decreased heart V1.5Gy (p< 0.001), and increased contralateral breast V5Gy, skin D0.01cc, and RTOG conformity index (p = 0.03, p = 0.03, and p = 0.01, respectively). However, only the reduction in heart dose was significant after correcting for multiple testing. Physicist-selected plans were deemed clinically acceptable without modification for 75% and 90% of plans by physicians A and B, respectively. Physicians A and B scored at least one automatically generated plan as clinically acceptable for 100% and 95% of planning intents, respectively. Conclusions Standard left- and right-sided planning templates automatically generated APBI plans of comparable quality to manually generated plans treated on a stereotactic linear accelerator, with a significant reduction in heart dose compared to Eclipse generated plans. The methods presented in this work elucidate an approach for generating automated, cardiac-sparing APBI treatment plans for daily adaptive RT with high efficiency.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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1.5T MR-Guided Daily-Adaptive SBRT for Prostate Cancer: Preliminary Report of Toxicity and Quality of Life of the First 100 Patients. J Pers Med 2022; 12:jpm12121982. [PMID: 36556203 PMCID: PMC9785799 DOI: 10.3390/jpm12121982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Purpose: The present study reports the preliminary outcomes in terms of adverse events and quality of life in the first 100 patients treated with 1.5T MR-guided daily-adaptive stereotactic body radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Methods: From October 2019 to December 2020, 100 patients, enrolled in a prospective study, received MR-guided SBRT for prostate cancer. Rectal spacer insertion was optional and administered in 37 patients. In total, 32 patients received androgen deprivation therapy in accordance with international guidelines. A prospective collection of data regarding toxicity and quality of life was performed. Results: The median age was 71 years (range, 52-84). The median total dose delivered was 35 Gy (35-36.25 Gy) in five sessions, either on alternate days (n = 25) or consecutive days (n = 75). For acute toxicity, we recorded: seven cases of acute G2 urinary pain and four cases of G2 gastrointestinal events. The median follow-up was 12 months (3-20), recording three late G2 urinary events and one G3 case, consisting of a patient who required a TURP 8 months after the treatment. For gastrointestinal toxicity, we observed 3 G ≥ 2 GI events, including one patient who received argon laser therapy for radiation-induced proctitis. Up to the last follow-up, all patients are alive and with no evidence of biochemical relapse, except for an M1 low-volume patient in distant progression two months after radiotherapy. QoL evaluation reported a substantial resolution of any discomfort within the second follow-up after radiotherapy, with the only exception being sexual items. Notably, after one year, global health items were improved compared to the baseline assessment. Conclusions: This study reports very promising outcomes in terms of adverse events and QoL, supporting the role of 1.5T MR-guided SBRT for prostate cancer. To date, this series is one of the first and largest available in the literature. Long-term results are warranted.
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Trivellato S, Caricato P, Pellegrini R, Montanari G, Daniotti MC, Bordigoni B, Faccenda V, Panizza D, Meregalli S, Bonetto E, Arcangeli S, De Ponti E. Comprehensive dosimetric and clinical evaluation of lexicographic optimization-based planning for cervical cancer. Front Oncol 2022; 12:1041839. [PMID: 36465394 PMCID: PMC9709287 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1041839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
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AIM In this study, a not yet commercially available fully-automated lexicographic optimization (LO) planning algorithm, called mCycle (Elekta AB, Stockholm, Sweden), was validated for cervical cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-four mono-institutional consecutive treatment plans (50 Gy/25 fx) delivered between November 2019 and April 2022 were retrospectively selected. The automatic re-planning was performed by mCycle, implemented in the Monaco TPS research version (v5.59.13), in which the LO and Multicriterial Optimization (MCO) are coupled with Monte Carlo calculation. mCycle optimization follows an a priori assigned priority list, the so-called Wish List (WL), representing a dialogue between the radiation oncologist and the planner, setting hard constraints and following objectives. The WL was tuned on a patient subset according to the institution's clinical protocol to obtain an optimal plan in a single optimization. This robust WL was then used to automatically re-plan the remaining patients. Manual plans (MP) and mCycle plans (mCP) were compared in terms of dose distributions, complexity (modulation complexity score, MCS), and delivery accuracy (perpendicular diode matrices, gamma analysis-passing ratio, PR). Their clinical acceptability was assessed through the blind choice of two radiation oncologists. Finally, a global quality score index (SI) was defined to gather into a single number the plan evaluation process. RESULTS The WL tuning requested four patients. The 20 automated re-planning tasks took three working days. The median optimization and calculation time can be estimated at 4 h and just over 1 h per MP and mCP, respectively. The dose comparison showed a comparable organ-at-risk spare. The planning target volume coverage increased (V95%: MP 98.0% [95.6-99.3]; mCP 99.2%[89.7-99.9], p >0.05). A significant increase has been registered in MCS (MP 0.29 [0.24-0.34]; mCP 0.26 [0.23-0.30], p <0.05) without affecting delivery accuracy (PR (3%/3mm): MP 97.0% [92.7-99.2]; mCP 97.1% [95.0-98.6], p >0.05). In the blind choice, all mCP results were clinically acceptable and chosen over MP in more than 75% of cases. The median SI score was 0.69 [0.41-0.84] and 0.73 [0.51-0.82] for MP and mCP, respectively (p >0.05). CONCLUSIONS mCycle plans were comparable to clinical manual plans, more complex but accurately deliverable and registering a similar SI. Automated plans outperformed manual plans in blinded clinical choice.
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- Sara Trivellato
- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
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- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Monza, Monza, Italy
- School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Evaluation of an automated template-based treatment planning system for radiotherapy of anal, rectal and prostate cancer. Tech Innov Patient Support Radiat Oncol 2022; 22:30-36. [PMID: 35464888 PMCID: PMC9020095 DOI: 10.1016/j.tipsro.2022.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Automated treatment planning system compared to manual planning. Equivalent plan quality between VMAT manually generated- and IMRT automatically generated plans. Evaluation of anal, prostate and rectum treatment plans. Generation of highly consistent IMRT automated plan within 2 to 3.5 min.
Background and purpose The Ethos system has enabled online adaptive radiotherapy (oART) by implementing an automated treatment planning system (aTPS) for both intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy (VMAT) plan creation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of aTPS plans in the pelvic region. Material and Methods Sixty patients with anal (n = 20), rectal (n = 20) or prostate (n = 20) cancer were retrospectively re-planned with the aTPS. Three IMRT (7-, 9- and 12-field) and two VMAT (2 and 3 arc) automatically generated plans (APs) were created per patient. The duration of the automated plan generation was registered. The best IMRT-AP and VMAT-AP for each patient were selected based on target coverage and dose to organs at risk (OARs). The AP quality was analyzed and compared to corresponding clinically accepted and manually generated VMAT plans (MPs) using several clinically relevant dose metrics. Calculation-based pre-treatment plan quality assurance (QA) was performed for all plans. Results The median total duration to generate the five APs with the aTPS was 55 min, 39 min and 35 min for anal, prostate and rectal plans, respectively. The target coverage and the OAR sparing were equivalent for IMRT-APs and VMAT-MPs, while VMAT-Aps. demonstrated lower target dose homogeneity and higher dose to some OARs. Both conformity and homogeneity index were equivalent (rectal) or better (anal and prostate) for IMRT-APs compared to VMAT-MPs. All plans passed the patient-specific QA tolerance limit. Conclusions The aTPS generates plans comparable to MPs within a short time-frame which is highly relevant for oART treatments.
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Key Words
- AP, automatically generated plan
- Automated treatment planning
- CN, conformity number
- CT, computed tomography
- CTV, clinical target volume
- DVH, dose volume histogram
- FFF, flattening filter free
- GTV, gross tumor volume
- HI, homogeneity index
- IMRT, intensity modulated radiotherapy
- Intelligent optimization engine
- KPB, knowledge-based planning
- Linac, Linear accelerators
- MCO, multi-criteria optimization
- MLC, multileaf collimator
- MP, manually-generated plan
- MR, magnetic resonance
- MU, Monitor Unit
- OAR, Organ at risk
- Online adaptive radiotherapy
- PTV, planning target volume
- Pelvic cancer
- Plan quality
- QA, Quality assurance
- SD, standard deviation
- Template-based Ethos TPS
- VMAT, volumetric arc radiotherapy
- aTPS, automated treatment planning system
- oART, online adaptive radiotherapy
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