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Cordón Avila A, Abayazid M. Liver respiratory-induced motion estimation using abdominal surface displacement as a surrogate: robotic phantom and clinical validation with varied correspondence models. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 2024:10.1007/s11548-024-03176-1. [PMID: 38809319 DOI: 10.1007/s11548-024-03176-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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PURPOSE This work presents the implementation of an RGB-D camera as a surrogate signal for liver respiratory-induced motion estimation. This study aims to validate the feasibility of RGB-D cameras as a surrogate in a human subject experiment and to compare the performance of different correspondence models. METHODS The proposed approach uses an RGB-D camera to compute an abdominal surface reconstruction and estimate the liver respiratory-induced motion. Two sets of validation experiments were conducted, first, using a robotic liver phantom and, secondly, performing a clinical study with human subjects. In the clinical study, three correspondence models were created changing the conditions of the learning-based model. RESULTS The motion model for the robotic liver phantom displayed an error below 3 mm with a coefficient of determination above 90% for the different directions of motion. The clinical study presented errors of 4.5, 2.5, and 2.9 mm for the three different motion models with a coefficient of determination above 80% for all three cases. CONCLUSION RGB-D cameras are a promising method to accurately estimate the liver respiratory-induced motion. The internal motion can be estimated in a non-contact, noninvasive and flexible approach. Additionally, three training conditions for the correspondence model are studied to potentially mitigate intra- and inter-fraction motion.
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- Ana Cordón Avila
- Robotics and Mechatronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, Netherlands.
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- Robotics and Mechatronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, Netherlands
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Kawamura M, Shimojo M, Inden Y, Kamomae T, Okudaira K, Komada T, Aoki S, Shindo Y, Yasui R, Yanagi Y, Okumura M, Yamada T, Kozai Y, Oie Y, Kato Y, Ishihara S, Murohara T, Naganawa S. Stereotactic radiotherapy for ventricular tachycardia: A study protocol. F1000Res 2023; 12:798. [PMID: 38204487 PMCID: PMC10776963 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.138758.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Background Currently, the standard curative treatment for ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular fibrillation (VF) is radiofrequency catheter ablation. However, when the VT circuit is deep in the myocardium, the catheter may not be delivered, and a new, minimally invasive treatment using different energies is desired. Methods This is a protocol paper for a feasibility study designed to provide stereotactic radiotherapy for refractory VT not cured by catheter ablation after at least one catheter ablation. The primary end point is to evaluate the short-term safety of this treatment and the secondary endpoint is to evaluate its efficacy as assessed by the reduction in VT episode. Cyberknife M6 radiosurgery system will be used for treatment, and the prescribed dose to the target will be 25Gy in one fraction. The study will be conducted on three patients. Conclusion Since catheter ablation is the only treatment option for VT that is covered by insurance in Japan, there is currently no other treatment for VT/VF that cannot be cured by catheter ablation. We hope that this feasibility study will provide hope for patients who are currently under the stress of ICD activation. Trial registration The study has been registered in the Japan Registry of Clinical Trials (jRCTs042230030).
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- Mariko Kawamura
- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Cardiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Cardiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiological Technology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiological Technology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Cardiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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- Radiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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Nemoto H, Saito M, Suzuki T, Suzuki H, Sano N, Mochizuki Z, Mochizuki K, Ueda K, Komiyama T, Marino K, Aoki S, Oguri M, Takahashi H, Onishi H. Evaluation of computed tomography metal artifact and CyberKnife fiducial recognition for novel size fiducial markers. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2023; 24:e14142. [PMID: 37672211 PMCID: PMC10691645 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.14142] [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: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 06/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023] Open
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PURPOSE This study aimed to compare fiducial markers used in CyberKnife treatment in terms of metal artifact intensity observed in CT images and fiducial recognition in the CyberKnife system affected by patient body thickness and type of marker. METHODS Five markers, ACCULOC 0.9 mm × 3 mm, Ball type Gold Anchor (GA) 0.28 mm × 10 mm, 0.28 mm × 20 mm, and novel size GA 0.4 mm × 10 mm, 0.4 mm × 20 mm were evaluated. To evaluate metal artifacts of CT images, two types of CT images of water-equivalent gels with each marker were acquired using Aquilion LB CT scanner, one applied SEMAR (SEMAR-on) and the other did not apply this technique (SEMAR-off). The evaluation metric of artifact intensity (MSD ) which represents a variation of CT values were compared for each marker. Next, 5, 15, and 20 cm thickness of Tough Water (TW) was placed on the gel under the condition of overlapping the vertebral phantom in the Target Locating System, and the live image of each marker was acquired to compare fiducial recognition. RESULTS The mean MSD of SEMAR-off was 78.80, 74.50, 97.25, 83.29, and 149.64 HU for ACCULOC, GA0.28 mm × 10 mm, 20 mm, and 0.40 mm × 10 mm, 20 mm, respectively. In the same manner, that of SEMAR-on was 23.52, 20.26, 26.76, 24.89, and 33.96 HU, respectively. Fiducial recognition decreased in the order of 5, 15, and 20 cm thickness, and GA 0.4 × 20 mm showed the best recognition at thickness of 20 cm TW. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated the potential to reduce metal artifacts in the CT image to the same level for all the markers we evaluated by applying SEMAR. Additionally, the fiducial recognition of each marker may vary depending on the thickness of the patient's body. Particularly, we showed that GA 0.40 × 20 mm may have more optimal recognition for CyberKnife treatment in cases of high bodily thickness in comparison to the other markers.
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- Hikaru Nemoto
- Department of Advanced Biomedical ImagingUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Kasugai CyberKnife Rehabilitation HospitalYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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- Department of RadiologyShizuoka General HospitalShizuokaJapan
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- Department of RadiologyUniversity of YamanashiYamanashiJapan
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Dong Y, Hu P, Li X, Liu W, Yan B, Yang F, Ford JC, Portelance L, Yang Y. Dosimetry impact of distinct gating strategies in cine MR image-guided breath-hold pancreatic cancer radiotherapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2023; 24:e14078. [PMID: 37335543 PMCID: PMC10562039 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.14078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Revised: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To investigate the dosimetry effects of different gating strategies in cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided breath-hold pancreatic cancer radiotherapy. METHODS Two cine MRI-based gating strategies were investigated: a tumor contour-based gating strategy at a gating threshold of 0-5% and a tumor displacement-based gating strategy at a gating threshold of 3-5 mm. The cine MRI videos were obtained from 17 pancreatic cancer patients who received MRI-guided radiation therapy. We calculated the tumor displacement in each cine MR frame that satisfied the gating threshold and obtained the proportion of frames with different displacements. We generated IMRT and VMAT plans using a 33 Gy prescription, and motion plans were generated by adding up all isocenter-shift plans corresponding to different tumor displacements. The dose parameters of GTV, PTV, and organs at risk (OAR) were compared between the original and motion plans. RESULTS In both gating strategies, the difference was significant in PTV coverage but not in GTV coverage between the original and motion plans. OAR dose parameters deteriorate with increasing gating threshold. The beam duty cycle increased from 19.5±14.3% (median 18.0%) to 60.8±15.6% (61.1%) for gating thresholds from 0% to 5% in tumor contour-based gating and from 51.7±11.5% (49.7%) to 67.3±12.4% (67.1%) for gating thresholds from 3 to 5 mm in tumor displacement-based gating. CONCLUSION In tumor contour-based gating strategy, the dose delivery accuracy deteriorates while the dose delivery efficiency improves with increasing gating thresholds. To ensure treatment efficiency, the gating threshold might be no less than 3%. A threshold up to 5% may be acceptable in terms of the GTV coverage. The displacement-based gating strategy may serve as a potential alternative to the tumor contour based gating strategy, in which the gating threshold of approximately 4 mm might be a good choice for reasonably balancing the dose delivery accuracy and efficiency.
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- Yuyan Dong
- Department of Engineering and Applied PhysicsUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
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- Department of Engineering and Applied PhysicsUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
- Department of Radiation Oncologythe First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
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- Department of Engineering and Applied PhysicsUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
- Department of Radiation Oncologythe First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
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- Department of Radiation Oncologythe First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
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- Department of Radiation Oncologythe First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
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- The Miller School of MedicineUniversity of MiamiMiamiFloridaUSA
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- Department of Engineering and Applied PhysicsUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
- Department of Radiation Oncologythe First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefeiAnhuiChina
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Liang ZW, Zhai ML, Tu B, Nie X, Zhu XH, Cheng JP, Li GQ, Yu DD, Zhang T, Zhang S. Comprehensive Treatment Uncertainty Analysis and PTV Margin Estimation for Fiducial Tracking in Robotic Liver Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. Curr Med Sci 2023:10.1007/s11596-023-2717-6. [PMID: 37142817 DOI: 10.1007/s11596-023-2717-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This study aims to quantify the uncertainties of CyberKnife Synchrony fiducial tracking for liver stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) cases, and evaluate the required planning target volume (PTV) margins. METHODS A total of 11 liver tumor patients with a total of 57 fractions, who underwent SBRT with synchronous fiducial tracking, were enrolled for the present study. The correlation/prediction model error, geometric error, and beam targeting error were quantified to determine the patient-level and fraction-level individual composite treatment uncertainties. The composite uncertainties and multiple margin recipes were compared for scenarios with and without rotation correction during treatment. RESULTS The correlation model error-related uncertainty was 4.3±1.8, 1.4±0.5 and 1.8±0.7 mm in the superior-inferior (SI), left-right, and anterior-posterior directions, respectively. These were the primary contributors among all uncertainty sources. The geometric error significantly increased for treatments without rotation correction. The fraction-level composite uncertainties had a long tail distribution. Furthermore, the generally used 5-mm isotropic margin covered all uncertainties in the left-right and anterior-posterior directions, and only 75% of uncertainties in the SI direction. In order to cover 90% of uncertainties in the SI direction, an 8-mm margin would be needed. For scenarios without rotation correction, additional safety margins should be added, especially in the superior-inferior and anterior-posterior directions. CONCLUSION The present study revealed that the correlation model error contributes to most of the uncertainties in the results. Most patients/fractions can be covered by a 5-mm margin. Patients with large treatment uncertainties might need a patient-specific margin.
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- Zhi-Wen Liang
- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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Kong CW, Chiu TL, Cheung CW, Lee TY, Yeung FK, Yu SK. The impact of the ClearRT ™ upgrade on target motion tracking accuracy in Radixact ® Synchrony ® lung treatments. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother 2022; 27:1106-1113. [PMID: 36632302 PMCID: PMC9826654 DOI: 10.5603/rpor.a2022.0111] [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: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background The objective was to investigate the change in segmentation error of Radixact® Synchrony® lung treatment after its kV imaging system was upgraded from Generation 1 to Generation 2 in the ClearRT™ installation. Materials and methods Radixact® Lung Synchrony® plans were created for the Model 18023 Xsight® Lung Tracking "XLT" Phantom combined with different lung target inserts with densities of 0.280, 0.500, 0.943 and 1.093 g/cc. After Radixact® Synchrony® treatment delivery using the Generation 1 and Generation 2 kV systems according to each plan, the tracking performance of the two kV systems on each density insert was compared by calculating the root mean square (RMS) error (δRMS) between the Synchrony-predicted motion in the log file and the known phantom motion and by calculating δ95%, the maximum error within a 95% probability threshold. Results The δRMS and δ95% of Radixact® Synchrony® treatment for Gen1 kV systems deteriorated as the density of the target insert decreased, from 1.673 ± 0.064 mm and 3.049 ± 0.089 mm, respectively, for the 1.093 g/cc insert to 8.355 ± 5.873 mm and 15.297 ± 10.470 mm, respectively, for the 0.280 g/cc insert. In contrast, no such trend was observed in the δRMS or δ95% of Synchrony® treatment using the Gen2 kV system. The δRMS and δ95%, respectively, fluctuated slightly from 1.586 to 1.687 mm and from 2.874 to 2.971 mm when different target inserts were tracked by the Gen2 kV system. Conclusion With improved image contrast in kV radiographs, the Gen2 kV imaging system can enhance the ability to track targets accurately in Radixact® Lung Synchrony® treatment and reduce the segmentation error. Our study showed that lung targets with density values as low as 0.280 cc/g could be tracked correctly in Synchrony treatment with the Gen2 kV imaging system.
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Liu C, Wang Q, Si W, Ni X. NuTracker: a coordinate-based neural network representation of lung motion for intrafraction tumor tracking with various surrogates in radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol 2022; 68. [PMID: 36537890 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aca873] [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: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Objective. Tracking tumors and surrounding tissues in real-time is critical for reducing errors and uncertainties during radiotherapy. Existing methods are either limited by the linear representation or scale poorly with the volume resolution. To address both issues, we propose a novel coordinate-based neural network representation of lung motion to predict the instantaneous 3D volume at arbitrary spatial resolution from various surrogates: patient surface, fiducial marker, and single kV projection.Approach. The proposed model, namely NuTracker, decomposes the 4DCT into a template volume and dense displacement fields (DDFs), and uses two coordinate neural networks to predict them from spatial coordinates and surrogate states. The predicted template is spatially warped with the predicted DDF to produce the deformed volume for a given surrogate state. The nonlinear coordinate networks enable representing complex motion at infinite resolution. The decomposition allows imposing different regularizations on the spatial and temporal domains. The meta-learning and multi-task learning are used to train NuTracker across patients and tasks, so that commonalities and differences can be exploited. NuTracker was evaluated on seven patients implanted with markers using a leave-one-phase-out procedure.Main results. The 3D marker localization error is 0.66 mm on average and <1 mm at 95th-percentile, which is about 26% and 32% improvement over the predominant linear methods. The tumor coverage and image quality are improved by 5.7% and 11% in terms of dice and PSNR. The difference in the localization error for different surrogates is small and is not statistically significant. Cross-population learning and multi-task learning contribute to performance. The model tolerates surrogate drift to a certain extent.Significance. NuTracker can provide accurate estimation for entire tumor volume based on various surrogates at infinite resolution. It is of great potential to apply the coordinate network to other imaging modalities, e.g. 4DCBCT and other tasks, e.g. 4D dose calculation.
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- Cong Liu
- Radiation Oncology Center, The Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, People's Republic of China.,Center of Medical Physics, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, People's Republic of China.,Faculty of Business Information, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, People's Republic of China
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- Faculty of Business Information, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.,Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Radiation Oncology Center, The Affiliated Changzhou Second People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, People's Republic of China.,Center of Medical Physics, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, People's Republic of China
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Guo X, Su H, Wan F, Zhao X, Cao T, Dai Z, Zhang H. Dosimetric and biological comparisons of single planning and double plannings for bilateral lung cancer SBRT planning based on the Cyber-Knife system. Front Oncol 2022; 12:1015999. [DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1015999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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ObjectiveThe aim is to investigate the influence of single planning (Plan S) and double plannings (Plan D) on bilateral lung cancer stereotactic body radiation therapy planning from the perspective of dosimetry and biology respectively. Methods Cases with bilateral lung cancer patients who had undergone SBRT with the Cyber-Knife were enrolled, and a single planning and double plannings were designed in the Multiplan@4.2 treatment planning system equipped with the Cyber-Knife system. The single plan was to optimize the two target volumes in a separate plan, while the dual plan is to optimize two target volumes respectively in two separate plans, then perform dose superposition. Then based on the dosimetric results, the biological parameters were calculated. Thus the quality of SBRT plans for those bilateral lung cancer designed by the two methods were compared and evaluated according to the dosimetric and biological results.ResultsThe dose distribution of both planning target volumes and surrounding organs at risk in Plan S and Plan D could meet the clinical prescription requirements. The target conformity index and the new conformity index of PTV were closer to 1 in the Double plannings, and the dose gradient GI in the Plan D was smaller than Plan S. For organs at risks, the doses received by the Plan D were relatively small. In terms of biological models, for the equivalent uniform dose of normal lung tissue, heart and esophagus, the Plan D was 6.51% (P=0.045), 19.8% (P=0.022), 27.08% (P>0.05) lower than Plan S respectively. The results showed that the equivalent uniform dose of normal tissue in the Plan D was lower relative to Plan S.ConclusionsDosimetric and biological results show that both the use of Plan D have an advantage of protecting normal tissues, and it was suggested that to design double plannings for bilateral lung cancer stereotactic body radiation therapy planning based on Cyber-Knife in the clinical practice.
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Liu M, Cygler JE, Dennis K, Vandervoort E. A dose perturbation tool for robotic radiosurgery: Experimental validation and application to liver lesions. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2022; 23:e13766. [PMID: 36094024 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.13766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND An analytical tool is empirically validated and used to assess the delivered dose to liver lesions accounting for different types of errors in robotic radiosurgery treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS A tool is proposed to estimate the target doses taking into account the translation, rotation, and deformation of a target. Translational errors are modeled as a spatial convolution of the planned dose with a probability distribution function derived from treatment data. Rotations are modeled by rotating the target volume about the imaging isocenter. Target deformation is simulated as an isotropic target expansion or contraction based on changes in inter-fiducial spacing. The estimated dose is validated using radiochromic film measurements in nine experimental conditions, including in-phase and out-of-phase internal-and-external breathing motion patterns, with and without uncorrectable rotations, and for homogenous and heterogeneous phantoms. The measured dose is compared to the perturbed and planned doses using gamma analyses. This proposed tool is applied to assess the dose coverage for liver treatments using D99/Rx where D99 and Rx are the minimum target and prescription doses, respectively. These metrics are used to evaluate plan robustness to different magnitudes of rotational errors. Case studies are presented to illustrate how to improve plan robustness against delivery errors. RESULTS In the experimental validations, measured dose agrees with the estimated dose at the 2%/2 mm level. When accounting for translational and rotational tracking residual errors using this tool, approximately one-fifth of targets are considered underdosed (D99/Rx < 1.0). If target expansion or contraction is modeled, approximately one-third of targets are underdosed. The dose coverage can be improved if treatments are planned following proposed guidelines. CONCLUSION The dose perturbation model can be used to assess dose delivery accuracy and investigate plan robustness to different types of errors.
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- Ming Liu
- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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Klein TJ, Gill S, Ebert MA, Grogan G, Smith W, Alkhatib Z, Geraghty J, Scott AJD, Brown A, Rowshanfarzad P. CyberKnife Xsight versus fiducial-based target-tracking: a novel 3D dosimetric comparison in a dynamic phantom. Radiat Oncol 2022; 17:154. [PMID: 36076249 PMCID: PMC9461108 DOI: 10.1186/s13014-022-02123-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background The CyberKnife Xsight lung-tracking system (XLTS) provides an alternative to fiducial-based target-tracking systems (FTTS) for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients without invasive fiducial insertion procedures. This study provides a method for 3D independent dosimetric verification of the accuracy of the FTTS compared to the XLTS without relying on log-files generated by the CyberKnife system. Methods A respiratory motion trace was taken from a 4D-CT of a real lung cancer patient and applied to a modified QUASAR™ respiratory motion phantom. A novel approach to 3D dosimetry was developed using Gafchromic EBT3 film, allowing the 3D dose distribution delivered to the moving phantom to be reconstructed. Treatments were planned using the recommended margins for one and three fiducial markers and XLTS 2-view, 1-view and 0-view target-tracking modalities. The dose delivery accuracy was analysed by comparing the reconstructed dose distributions to the planned dose distributions using gamma index analysis. Results For the 3%/2 mm gamma criterion, gamma passing rates up to 99.37% were observed for the static deliveries. The 3-fiducial and 1-fiducial-based deliveries exhibited passing rates of 93.74% and 97.82%, respectively, in the absence of target rotation. When target rotation was considered, the passing rate for 1-fiducial tracking degraded to 91.24%. The passing rates observed for XLTS 2-view, 1-view and 0-view target-tracking were 92.78%, 96.22% and 76.08%, respectively. Conclusions Except for the XLTS 0-view, the dosimetric accuracy of the XLTS was comparable to the FTTS under equivalent treatment conditions. This study gives us further confidence in the CyberKnife XLTS and FTTS systems.
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- Thomas J Klein
- School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Mailbag M013, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Mailbag M013, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Mailbag M013, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia.,Radiotherapy Physics Department, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, UK
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- School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Mailbag M013, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Mailbag M013, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
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Remy C, Bouchard H. Adaptive confidence regions for indirect tracking of moving tumors in radiotherapy. Med Phys 2022; 49:4273-4283. [PMID: 35502559 DOI: 10.1002/mp.15691] [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: 11/16/2021] [Revised: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Target motion in the course of radiotherapy is one of the largest factors affecting the treatment quality of highly dynamic sites such as lung. A critical component of real-time motion management is not only the prediction of tumor location at a future point in time but assessment of positional uncertainty for the purposes of margin adjustment and optimization of validation schemes. PURPOSE In this study, we propose to investigate the ability of a confidence estimator to accurately reflect the reliability of individual target position predictions and prospectively detect large prediction errors by relying exclusively on a surrogate signal. METHODS This work uses a Bayesian framework for indirect tracking. While constant covariance estimates are commonly used to express the uncertainty of the models involved, in this study new adaptive estimates are derived from the surrogate behavior to reflect increasing uncertainty when the breathing conditions differ from the reference conditions observed during the training step. The accuracy of the resulting 95% predicted confidence regions (CRs) is evaluated on 9 breathing sequences involving changes of respiratory types (free, thoracic, abdominal, deep). The breathing motions are collected simultaneously from a lung target and two different surrogate signals (an external marker and an anatomical location within the liver). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis is performed to evaluate the ability of the predicted uncertainty to prospectively detect large prediction errors. RESULTS Higher CR accuracy is obtained when using the proposed adaptive estimates over using constant estimations: on average over the cohort, the proportion of actual target positions lying within the 95% CR is increased by 40 and 35 p.p. with the internal and external surrogates. The time-dependent inflation of the CR width tends to match the magnitude variation of the prediction errors : the adaptive CR effectively enlarges when the target position cannot be predicted reliably, which corresponds to potentially high prediction errors. More precisely, the ROC analysis indicates that the proposed uncertainty estimate can detect if prediction errors are greater than 5 mm with on average high sensitivity (90%) and modest specificity (54% and 47% from internal and external surrogates respectively). CONCLUSIONS While relying exclusively on the surrogate motion characteristics being continuously monitored, the Bayesian framework coupled to adaptive uncertainty estimations can provide reliable CR able to detect large prediction errors. The findings of this study could be further used to automatically trigger risk management mechanisms prospectively. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Charlotte Remy
- Département de physique, Université de Montréal, Complexe des sciences, 1375 Avenue Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux, Montréal, Québec, H2V 0B3, Canada.,Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, 900 Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, Québec, H2X 0A9, Canada
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- Département de physique, Université de Montréal, Complexe des sciences, 1375 Avenue Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux, Montréal, Québec, H2V 0B3, Canada.,Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, 900 Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, Québec, H2X 0A9, Canada.,Département de radio-oncologie, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), 1560 rue Sherbrooke est, Montréal, Québec, H2L 4M1, Canada
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Okawa K, Inoue M, Sakae T. Development of a tracking error prediction system for the CyberKnife Synchrony Respiratory Tracking System with use of support vector regression. Med Biol Eng Comput 2021; 59:2409-2418. [PMID: 34655052 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-021-02445-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE The accuracy of the CyberKnife Synchrony Respiratory Tracking System is dependent on the breathing pattern of a patient. Therefore, the tracking error in each patient must be determined. Support vector regression (SVR) can be used to easily identify the tracking error in each patient. This study aimed to develop a system with SVR that can predict tracking error according to a patient's respiratory waveform. METHODS Datasets of the respiratory waveforms of 93 patients were obtained. The feature variables were variation in respiration amplitude, tumor velocity, and phase shift between tumor and the chest wall, and the target variable was tracking error. A learning model was evaluated with tenfold cross-validation. We documented the difference between the predicted and actual tracking errors and assessed the correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination. RESULTS The average difference and maximum difference between the actual and predicted tracking errors were 0.57 ± 0.63 mm and 2.1 mm, respectively. The correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination were 0.86 and 0.74, respectively. CONCLUSION We developed a system for obtaining tracking error by using SVR. The accuracy of such a system is clinically useful. Moreover, the system can easily evaluate tracking error. We developed a system that can be used to predict the tracking error of SRTS in the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System using machine learning. The feature variables were the breathing parameters, and the target variable was the tracking error. We used support vector regression algorithm.
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- Kohei Okawa
- Department Radiotherapy Quality Management, Yokohama CyberKnife Center, Ichizawa-cho 574-1, Asahi-ku, Yokohama, 241-0014, Japan.
- Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan.
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- Department Radiotherapy Quality Management, Yokohama CyberKnife Center, Ichizawa-cho 574-1, Asahi-ku, Yokohama, 241-0014, Japan
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- Proton Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Ibaraki, 305-8576, Japan
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8577, Japan
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Mylonas A, Booth J, Nguyen DT. A review of artificial intelligence applications for motion tracking in radiotherapy. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol 2021; 65:596-611. [PMID: 34288501 DOI: 10.1111/1754-9485.13285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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During radiotherapy, the organs and tumour move as a result of the dynamic nature of the body; this is known as intrafraction motion. Intrafraction motion can result in tumour underdose and healthy tissue overdose, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the treatment while increasing toxicity to the patients. There is a growing appreciation of intrafraction target motion management by the radiation oncology community. Real-time image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) can track the target and account for the motion, improving the radiation dose to the tumour and reducing the dose to healthy tissue. Recently, artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches have been applied to motion management and have shown great potential. In this review, four main categories of motion management using AI are summarised: marker-based tracking, markerless tracking, full anatomy monitoring and motion prediction. Marker-based and markerless tracking approaches focus on tracking the individual target throughout the treatment. Full anatomy algorithms monitor for intrafraction changes in the full anatomy within the field of view. Motion prediction algorithms can be used to account for the latencies due to the time for the system to localise, process and act.
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- Adam Mylonas
- ACRF Image X Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.,Institute of Medical Physics, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,School of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
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Okada W, Doi H, Tanooka M, Sano K, Nakamura K, Sakai Y, Shibata M, Tanaka M. A first report of tumour-tracking radiotherapy with helical tomotherapy for lung and liver tumours: A double case report. SAGE Open Med Case Rep 2021; 9:2050313X211023688. [PMID: 34178347 PMCID: PMC8202334 DOI: 10.1177/2050313x211023688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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There are only a limited number of previous reports on clinical cases using tumour tracking with tomotherapy. Therefore, we present two cases of patients treated with tumour tracking with tomotherapy. First, a 74-year-old man with an inoperable lung cancer type T1bN0M0 underwent stereotactic body radiotherapy at a total dose of 48 Gy in four fractions. Second, a 68-year-old man with hepatocellular carcinoma with a portal venous tumour thrombosis and history of liver stereotactic body radiotherapy with fiducial marker implantation received radiotherapy at a total dose of 48 Gy in 20 fractions. The results of patient-specific quality assurance and tracking radiotherapy were sufficient to irradiate tumours. Tumour tracking with tomotherapy successfully delivered radiation in a total of 24 treatment fractions in both patients. Tumour tracking with tomotherapy is feasible in lung and liver cancer treatment. This study's findings suggest the clinical use of tumour tracking with tomotherapy.
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- Wataru Okada
- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Takarazuka City Hospital, Takarazuka, Japan
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Hardcastle N, Briggs A, Caillet V, Angelis G, Chrystall D, Jayamanne D, Shepherd M, Harris B, Haddad C, Eade T, Keall P, Booth J. Quantification of the geometric uncertainty when using implanted markers as a surrogate for lung tumor motion. Med Phys 2021; 48:2724-2732. [PMID: 33626183 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Fiducial markers are used as surrogates for tumor location during radiation therapy treatment. Developments in lung fiducial marker and implantation technology have provided a means to insert markers endobronchially for tracking of lung tumors. This study quantifies the surrogacy uncertainty (SU) when using endobronchially implanted markers as a surrogate for lung tumor position. METHODS We evaluated SU for 17 patients treated in a prospective electromagnetic-guided MLC tracking trial. Tumor and markers were segmented on all phases of treatment planning 4DCTs and all frames of pretreatment kilovoltage fluoroscopy acquired from lateral and frontal views. The difference in tumor and marker position relative to end-exhale position was calculated as the SU for both imaging methods and the distributions of uncertainties analyzed. RESULTS The mean (range) tumor motion amplitude in the 4DCT scan was 5.9 mm (1.7-11.7 mm) in the superior-inferior (SI) direction, 2.2 mm (0.9-5.5 mm) in the left-right (LR) direction, and 3.9 mm (1.2-12.9 mm) in the anterior-posterior (AP) direction. Population-based analysis indicated symmetric SU centered close to 0 mm, with maximum 5th/95th percentile values over all axes of -2.0 mm/2.1 mm with 4DCT, and -2.3/1.3 mm for fluoroscopy. There was poor correlation between the SU measured with 4DCT and that measured with fluoroscopy on a per-patient basis. We observed increasing SU with increasing surrogate motion. Based on fluoroscopy analysis, the mean (95% CI) SU was 5% (2%-8%) of the motion magnitude in the SI direction, 16% (6%-26%) of the motion magnitude in the LR direction, and 33% (23%-42%) of the motion magnitude in the AP direction. There was no dependence of SU on marker distance from the tumor. CONCLUSION We have quantified SU due to use of implanted markers as surrogates for lung tumor motion. Population 95th percentile range are up to 2.3 mm, indicating the approximate contribution of SU to total geometric uncertainty. SU was relatively small compared with the SI motion, but substantial compared with LR and AP motion. Due to uncertainty in estimations of patient-specific SU, it is recommended that population-based margins are used to account for this component of the total geometric uncertainty.
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- Nicholas Hardcastle
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia.,Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia.,ACRF Image X Institute, School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia.,School of Physics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2042, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia.,School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2042, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia
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- School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2042, Australia.,Dept Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd, St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia.,School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2042, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital, Reserve Rd St Leonards, NSW, 2065, Australia.,Institute of Medical Physics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, 2042, Australia
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Keikhai Farzaneh MJ, Momennezhad M, Naseri S. Gated Radiotherapy Development and its Expansion. J Biomed Phys Eng 2021; 11:239-256. [PMID: 33937130 PMCID: PMC8064130 DOI: 10.31661/jbpe.v0i0.948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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One of the most important challenges in treatment of patients with cancerous tumors of chest and abdominal areas is organ movement. The delivery of treatment radiation doses to tumor tissue is a challenging matter while protecting healthy and radio sensitive tissues. Since the movement of organs due to respiration causes a discrepancy in the middle of planned and delivered dose distributions. The moderation in the fatalistic effect of intra-fractional target travel on the radiation therapy correctness is necessary for cutting-edge methods of motion remote monitoring and cancerous growth irradiancy. Tracking respiratory milling and implementation of breath-hold techniques by respiratory gating systems have been used for compensation of respiratory motion negative effects. Therefore, these systems help us to deliver precise treatments and also protect healthy and critical organs. It seems aspiration should be kept under observation all over treatment period employing tracking seed markers (e.g. fiducials), skin surface scanners (e.g. camera and laser monitoring systems) and aspiration detectors (e.g. spirometers). However, these systems are not readily available for most radiotherapy centers around the word. It is believed that providing and expanding the required equipment, gated radiotherapy will be a routine technique for treatment of chest and abdominal tumors in all clinical radiotherapy centers in the world by considering benefits of respiratory gating techniques in increasing efficiency of patient treatment in the near future. This review explains the different technologies and systems as well as some strategies available for motion management in radiotherapy centers.
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- Mohammad Javad Keikhai Farzaneh
- PhD, Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- PhD, Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- PhD, Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- PhD, Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- PhD, Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- PhD, Medical Physics Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Liu M, Cygler JE, Vandervoort E. Patient-specific PTV margins for liver stereotactic body radiation therapy determined using support vector classification with an early warning system for margin adaptation. Med Phys 2020; 47:5172-5182. [PMID: 32740935 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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PURPOSE An adaptive planning target volume (PTV) margin strategy incorporating a volumetric tracking error assessment after each fraction is proposed for robotic stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) liver treatments. METHODS AND MATERIALS A supervised machine learning algorithm employing retrospective data, which emulates a dry-run session prior to planning, is used to investigate if motion tracking errors are <2 mm, and consequently, planning target volume (PTV) margins can be reduced. A fraction of data collected during the beginning of a treatment course emulates a dry-run session (mock) before planning. Twenty features are calculated using mock data and used for support vector classification (SVC). A treatment course is labeled as Class 1 if the maximum root-mean-square radial tracking error for all remaining fractions is below 2 mm, or Class 2 otherwise. We evaluate the classification using fivefold cross-validation, leave-one-out cross-validation, 500 repeated random subsampling cross-validation, and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) metric. The classification is independently cross-validated on a cohort of 48 treatment plans for other anatomical sites. A per fraction assessment of volumetric tracking errors is performed for the standard 5 mm PTV margin (PTVstd ) for courses predicted as Class 2; or for a margin reduced by 2 mm (PTVstd-2mm ) for those predicted as Class 1. We perturb the gross tumor volume (GTV) by the tracking errors for each x-ray image acquisition and calculate the fractional GTV voxel occupancy probability (Pi ) inside the PTV for each treatment fraction i. For treatment courses classified as Class 1, an early warning system flags treatment courses having any Pi < 0.99, and the subsequent treatments are proposed to be replanned using PTVstd . RESULTS The classification accuracies are 0.84 ± 0.06 using fivefold cross-validation, and 0.77 when validated using an independent testing set (other anatomical sites). Eighty percent of treatment courses are correctly classified using leave-one-out cross-validation. The sensitivity, precision, specificity, F1 score, and accuracy are 0.81 ± 0.09, 0.85 ± 0.08, 0.80 ± 0.11, 0.83 ± 0.06, and 0.80 ± 0.07, respectively, using 500 repeated random subsampling cross-validation. The area under the curve for the ROC metric is 0.87 ± 0.05. The four most important features for classification are related to standard deviations of motion tracking errors, the linearity between the target location and external LED marker positions, and marker radial motion amplitudes. Eleven of 64 cases predicted to be of Class 1 have 0.96 < Pi < 0.99 for each treatment fraction, and require replanning using PTVstd . In comparison, the PTVstd always covers the perturbed GTVs with Pi > 0.99 for all patients. CONCLUSIONS Support vector classification is proposed for the classification of different motion tracking errors for patient courses based on a mock session before planning for SBRT liver treatments. It is feasible to implement patient-specific PTV margins in the clinic, assisted with an early warning system to flag treatment courses that require replanning using larger PTV margins in an adaptive treatment strategy.
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- Ming Liu
- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada.,Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada.,Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada
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Gianni C, Rivera D, Burkhardt JD, Pollard B, Gardner E, Maguire P, Zei PC, Natale A, Al-Ahmad A. Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation for refractory scar-related ventricular tachycardia. Heart Rhythm 2020; 17:1241-1248. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2020.02.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Romaguera LV, Plantefève R, Romero FP, Hébert F, Carrier JF, Kadoury S. Prediction of in-plane organ deformation during free-breathing radiotherapy via discriminative spatial transformer networks. Med Image Anal 2020; 64:101754. [DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2020] [Revised: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Chen GP, Tai A, Keiper TD, Lim S, Li XA. Technical Note: Comprehensive performance tests of the first clinical real-time motion tracking and compensation system using MLC and jaws. Med Phys 2020; 47:2814-2825. [PMID: 32277477 PMCID: PMC7496291 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Purpose To evaluate the performance of the first clinical real‐time motion tracking and compensation system using multileaf collimator (MLC) and jaws during helical tomotherapy delivery. Methods Appropriate mechanical and dosimetry tests were performed on the first clinical real‐time motion tracking system (Synchrony on Radixact, Accuray Inc) recently installed in our institution. kV radiography dose was measured by CTDIw using a pencil chamber. Changes of beam characteristics with jaw offset and MLC leaf shift were evaluated. Various dosimeters and phantoms including A1SL ion chamber (Standard Imaging), Gafchromic EBT3 films (Ashland), TomoPhantom (Med Cal), ArcCheck (Sun Nuclear), Delta4 (ScandiDos), with fiducial or high contrast inserts, placed on two dynamical motion platforms (CIRS dynamic motion‐CIRS, Hexamotion‐ScandiDos), were used to assess the dosimetric accuracy of the available Synchrony modalities: fiducial tracking with nonrespiratory motion (FNR), fiducial tracking with respiratory modeling (FR), and fiducial free (e.g., lung tumor tracking) with respiratory modeling (FFR). Motion detection accuracy of a tracking target, defined as the difference between the predicted and instructed target positions, was evaluated with the root mean square (RMS). The dose accuracy of motion compensation was evaluated by verifying the dose output constancy and by comparing measured and planned (predicted) three‐dimensional (3D) dose distributions based on gamma analysis. Results The measured CTDIw for a single radiograph with a 120 kVp and 1.6 mAs protocol was 0.084 mGy, implying a low imaging dose of 8.4 mGy for a typical Synchrony motion tracking fraction with 100 radiographs. The dosimetric effect of the jaw swing or MLC leaf shift was minimal on depth dose (<0.5%) and was <2% on both beam profile width and output for typical motions. The motion detection accuracies, that is, RMS, were 0.84, 1.13, and 0.48 mm for FNR, FR, and FFR, respectively, well within the 1.5 mm recommended tolerance. Dose constancy with Synchrony was found to be within 2%. The gamma passing rates of 3D dose measurements for a variety of Synchrony plans were well within the acceptable level. Conclusions The motion tracking and compensation using kV radiography, MLC shifting, and jaw swing during helical tomotherapy delivery was tested to be mechanically and dosimetrically accurate for clinical use.
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- Guang-Pei Chen
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plan Rd, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plan Rd, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plan Rd, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plan Rd, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plan Rd, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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Giraud P, Kreps S, Tournat H, Bibault JE, Fabiano E, Feutren T, Dautruche A, Durdux C. [Stereotactic pulmonary radiotherapy: Which machine?]. Cancer Radiother 2019; 23:658-661. [PMID: 31471252 DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2019.07.126] [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: 06/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Stereotactic radiotherapy represents a fundamental change in the practice of radiotherapy of lung cancers. Despite the great heterogeneity of sites, techniques, and doses, most studies found a high local control rate, around 70 to 90% at 2 years, and reduced toxicity, around 5% of grade 3 at 2 years. Stereotactic radiotherapy can be realized either by a dedicated accelerator (CyberKnife®) or by a conventional accelerator associated with specific systems. The two modalities deliver a very precise irradiation whose very good results published to date are similar. Some technical characteristics specific to each type of linear accelerator could guide the choice according to the target volume treated.
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- P Giraud
- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France.
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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- Service d'oncologie radiothérapie, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France
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Bertholet J, Knopf A, Eiben B, McClelland J, Grimwood A, Harris E, Menten M, Poulsen P, Nguyen DT, Keall P, Oelfke U. Real-time intrafraction motion monitoring in external beam radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:15TR01. [PMID: 31226704 PMCID: PMC7655120 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab2ba8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Radiotherapy (RT) aims to deliver a spatially conformal dose of radiation to tumours while maximizing the dose sparing to healthy tissues. However, the internal patient anatomy is constantly moving due to respiratory, cardiac, gastrointestinal and urinary activity. The long term goal of the RT community to 'see what we treat, as we treat' and to act on this information instantaneously has resulted in rapid technological innovation. Specialized treatment machines, such as robotic or gimbal-steered linear accelerators (linac) with in-room imaging suites, have been developed specifically for real-time treatment adaptation. Additional equipment, such as stereoscopic kilovoltage (kV) imaging, ultrasound transducers and electromagnetic transponders, has been developed for intrafraction motion monitoring on conventional linacs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been integrated with cobalt treatment units and more recently with linacs. In addition to hardware innovation, software development has played a substantial role in the development of motion monitoring methods based on respiratory motion surrogates and planar kV or Megavoltage (MV) imaging that is available on standard equipped linacs. In this paper, we review and compare the different intrafraction motion monitoring methods proposed in the literature and demonstrated in real-time on clinical data as well as their possible future developments. We then discuss general considerations on validation and quality assurance for clinical implementation. Besides photon RT, particle therapy is increasingly used to treat moving targets. However, transferring motion monitoring technologies from linacs to particle beam lines presents substantial challenges. Lessons learned from the implementation of real-time intrafraction monitoring for photon RT will be used as a basis to discuss the implementation of these methods for particle RT.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jenny Bertholet
- Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust, London, United
Kingdom
- Author to whom any correspondence should be
addressed
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- Department of Radiation Oncology,
University Medical Center
Groningen, University of Groningen, The
Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical
Engineering, Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London,
United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical
Engineering, Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College London, London,
United Kingdom
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- Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust, London, United
Kingdom
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- Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust, London, United
Kingdom
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- Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust, London, United
Kingdom
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- Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus,
Denmark
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia
- School of Biomedical Engineering,
University of Technology
Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia
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- Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS
Foundation Trust, London, United
Kingdom
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Akino Y, Shiomi H, Sumida I, Isohashi F, Seo Y, Suzuki O, Tamari K, Otani K, Higashinaka N, Hayashida M, Mabuchi N, Ogawa K. Impacts of respiratory phase shifts on motion-tracking accuracy of the CyberKnife Synchrony™ Respiratory Tracking System. Med Phys 2019; 46:3757-3766. [PMID: 30943311 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE The SynchronyTM Respiratory Tracking System (SRTS) component of the CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System (Accuray, Inc., Sunnyvale CA) enables real-time tracking of moving targets by modeling the correlation between the targets and external surrogate light-emitting diode (LED) markers placed on the patient's chest. Previous studies reported some cases with respiratory phase shifts between lung tumor and chest wall motions. In this study, the impacts of respiratory phase shifts on the motion-tracking accuracy of the SRTS were investigated. METHODS A plastic scintillator was used to detect the position of the x-ray beams. The scintillation light was recorded using a camera in a dark room. A moving phantom moved a U-shaped frame on the scintillator with a 4th power of sinusoidal functions. Three metallic markers for motion tracking and four fluorescent tapes were attached to the frame. The fluorescent tapes were used to identify phantom position and respiratory phase for each video frame. The beam positions collected, when considered relative to the phantom motion, represent the degree of tracking error. Beam position was calculated by adding error value to phantom position. Motions with respiratory phase shifts between the target and an extra stage mimicking chest wall motion were also tested for LED markers. Log files of the SRTS were analyzed to evaluate correlation errors. RESULTS When target and LED marker motions were synchronized with a respiratory cycle of 4 s, the maximum tracking errors for 90% and 95% of beam-on time were 1.0 mm and 1.2 mm, respectively. The frequency of tracking errors increased when LED marker motion phase preceded target motion. Tracking errors that corresponded to 90% beam-on time were within 2.4 mm for 5-15% of phase shifts. In contrast, the tracking errors were very large when the LED marker delayed to the target motions; the maximum errors of 90% beam-on time were 3.0, 3.8, and 7.5 mm for 5%, 10%, and 15% of phase shifts, respectively. The patterns of the tracking errors derived from the scintillation light were very similar to those of the correlation data of the SRTS derived from the log files, indicating that the tracking errors caused mainly due to the errors in modeling the correlation data. With long respiratory cycle of 6 s, the tracking errors were significantly decreased; the maximum tracking errors for 95% beam-on time were 1.6 mm and 2.2 mm for early and delayed LED motion. CONCLUSION We have investigated the motion-tracking accuracy of the CyberKnife SRTS for cases with the respiratory phase shift between the target and the LED marker. The maximum tracking errors for 90% probability were within 2.4 mm when the target delays to the LED markers. When LED marker delays, however, very large tracking errors were observed. With a long respiratory cycle, the tracking errors were greatly improved to less than 2.2 mm. Coaching slow breathing will be useful for accurate motion tracking radiotherapy.
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- Yuichi Akino
- Oncology Center, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.,Soseikai CyberKnife Center, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, 612-8248, Japan
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- Soseikai CyberKnife Center, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, 612-8248, Japan.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Carbon Ion Radiotherapy, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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- Soseikai CyberKnife Center, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, 612-8248, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
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Troy Teo P, Guo K, Ahmed B, Alayoubi N, Kehler K, Fontaine G, Sasaki D, Pistorius S. Evaluating a potential technique with local optical flow vectors for automatic organ-at-risk (OAR) intrusion detection and avoidance during radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:145008. [PMID: 31252423 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab2db4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Various techniques of deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) have been used to mitigate the likelihood and risk of exposing the heart, an organ-at-risk (OAR) for unintended radiation during left breast radiotherapy. However, issues of reproducibility of these techniques warrant further investigation into the feasibility of detecting the intrusion of an OAR into the treatment field during intra-fractional treatment delivery. The increase of high-dose, low-fraction radiotherapy treatments makes it important to immediately adapt treatment once an OAR is detected in the treatment field. This proof-of-concept implementation includes an algorithm that detects and tracks the motion at the edges of a treatment field and a control algorithm that adapts the treatment aperture according to the motion detected. In accordance to the AAPM Task-Group (TG-132) report, image registration techniques should be verified with virtual and physical phantoms prior to clinical application. Since most OARs move as a result of respiration-induced motion, we have used a lung phantom to generate images of a generic OAR intruding into a treatment field with known velocity. The phantom was programmed to move with sinusoidal and lung patient tumor motion patterns and the accuracy of intrusion tracking and MLC adaptation were benchmarked with the ground truth-programmed motion of the OAR. The motions were recorded with an electronic portal imaging device (EPID). An optimal cluster size of 9 × 9 motion vectors was found to provide the smallest average absolute position error of 0.3 mm. A strong linear correlation between the adapted MLC leaves and the actual OAR position was observed. The algorithm had a mean position tracking error of -0.4 ± 0.3 mm and a precision of 1.1 mm. It is possible to adapt MLC leaves based on the motion detected at the edges of the irradiated field, and it would be feasible to shield an unplanned intrusion of an OAR into the treatment field.
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- P Troy Teo
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Canada. Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
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Nakayama M, Uehara K, Nishimura H, Tamura S, Munetomo Y, Tsudou S, Mayahara H, Mukumoto N, Geso M, Sasaki R. Retrospective assessment of a single fiducial marker tracking regimen with robotic stereotactic body radiation therapy for liver tumours. Rep Pract Oncol Radiother 2019; 24:383-391. [PMID: 31297039 DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2019.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2018] [Revised: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Aim To investigate tumour motion tracking uncertainties in the CyberKnife Synchrony system with single fiducial marker in liver tumours. Background In the fiducial-based CyberKnife real-time tumour motion tracking system, multiple fiducial markers are generally used to enable translation and rotation corrections during tracking. However, sometimes a single fiducial marker is employed when rotation corrections are not estimated during treatment. Materials and methods Data were analysed for 32 patients with liver tumours where one fiducial marker was implanted. Four-dimensional computed tomography (CT) scans were performed to determine the internal target volume (ITV). Before the first treatment fraction, the CT scans were repeated and the marker migration was determined. Log files generated by the Synchrony system were obtained after each treatment and the correlation model errors were calculated. Intra-fractional spine rotations were examined on the spine alignment images before and after each treatment. Results The mean (standard deviation) ITV margin was 4.1 (2.3) mm, which correlated weakly with the distance between the fiducial marker and the tumour. The mean migration distance of the marker was 1.5 (0.7) mm. The overall mean correlation model error was 1.03 (0.37) mm in the radial direction. The overall mean spine rotations were 0.27° (0.31), 0.25° (0.22), and 0.23° (0.26) for roll, pitch, and yaw, respectively. The treatment time was moderately associated with the correlation model errors and weakly related to spine rotation in the roll and yaw planes. Conclusions More caution and an additional safety margins are required when tracking a single fiducial marker.
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Key Words
- AP, anterior–posterior
- CTV, clinical target volume
- CyberKnife
- Fiducial marker tracking
- GTV, gross tumour volume
- ITV, internal target volume
- LED, light-emitting diode
- LR, left–right
- Liver tumour
- PTV, planning target volume
- SBRT, stereotactic body radiation therapy
- SD, standard deviation
- SI, superior–inferior
- Synchrony system
- XST, Xsight Spine Tracking
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- Masao Nakayama
- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunokicho, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan.,Discipline of Medical Radiations, School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora Campus, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center, 8-5-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0046, Japan
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunokicho, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center, 8-5-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0046, Japan
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center, 8-5-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0046, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Hyogo Cancer Center, 13-70 Kitaojicho, Akashi City, Hyogo 637-8558, Japan
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center, 8-5-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0046, Japan
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunokicho, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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- Discipline of Medical Radiations, School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora Campus, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunokicho, Chuou-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan
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Liu M, Cygler JE, Vandervoort E. Geometrical tracking accuracy and appropriate PTV margins for robotic radiosurgery of liver lesions by SBRT. Acta Oncol 2019; 58:906-915. [PMID: 30799669 DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2019.1578896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Purpose: To assess the geometrical accuracy and estimate adequate PTV margins for liver treatments using the Synchrony respiratory tracking system. Material and methods: Treatment log files are analyzed for 72 liver patients to assess tracking accuracy. The tracking error is calculated as the quadratic sum of the correlation, the predictor and the beam positioning errors. Treatment target rotations and rigid body errors reported by the system are also evaluated. The impact of uncorrected rotations is assessed by rotating the planned dose distribution and reassessing target coverage. Total PTV margins are estimated by summing in quadrature tracking errors and rigid body errors. Relationships are explored between tracking errors, model linearity and motion amplitudes of internal and external markers. Results: Margins of 3, 2, 2 mm in SUP-INF, LT-RT and ANT-POST directions, respectively, are sufficient to account for tracking and beam positioning errors for 95% of patients. If rigid body error is also considered, margins increase to 4 mm isotropic. Rotations could not be corrected for 92% of patients due to imperfect fiducial implantation and limitations in the magnitude of corrections that the system can apply. Uncorrected rotations would lead to average estimated dose reductions of 2.7% ± 5.8% of the prescribed dose for D99 of GTVs (5 mm PTV expansion) in which the target was well covered in the original plan (28 of 31 GTVs). 80% of tracking models exhibit near linear correlation between internal and external marker motions with small tracking errors (<2.2 mm). Conclusions: Isotropic PTV margins considering tracking errors and target rigid body errors could be used for liver SBRT treatments if rotational corrections can be calculated accurately so that systematic rotational offsets can be avoided. The linearity of the internal and external breathing motions might be useful for other types of treatment modalities for liver cancer.
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- Ming Liu
- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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The world is embracing the information age, with real-time data at hand to assist with many decisions. Similarly, in cancer radiotherapy we are inexorably moving toward using information in a smarter and faster fashion, to usher in the age of real-time adaptive radiotherapy. The three critical steps of real-time adaptive radiotherapy, aligned with driverless vehicle technology are a continuous see, think, and act loop. See: use imaging systems to probe the patient anatomy or physiology as it evolves with time. Think: use current and prior information to optimize the treatment using the available adaptive degrees of freedom. Act: deliver the real-time adapted treatment. This paper expands upon these three critical steps for real-time adaptive radiotherapy, provides a historical context, reviews the clinical rationale, and gives a future outlook for real-time adaptive radiotherapy.
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- Paul Keall
- ACRF Image X Institute, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- Department of Oncology and Danish Center for Particle Therapy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Northern Sydney Cancer Centre, Royal North Shore Hospital and Institute of Medical Physics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia
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Akino Y, Wu H, Oh R, Das IJ. An effective method to reduce the interplay effects between respiratory motion and a uniform scanning proton beam irradiation for liver tumors: A case study. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2019; 20:220-228. [PMID: 30548791 PMCID: PMC6333118 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Revised: 10/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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PURPOSE For scanning particle beam therapy, interference between scanning patterns and interfield organ motion may result in suboptimal dose within target volume. In this study, we developed a simple offline correction technique for uniform scanning proton beam (USPB) delivery to compensate for the interplay between scanning patterns and respiratory motion and demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique in treating liver cancer. METHODS The computed tomography (CT) and respiration data of two patients who had received stereotactic body radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma were used. In the simulation, the relative beam weight delivered to each respiratory phase is calculated for each beam layer after treatment of each fraction. Respiratory phases with beam weights higher than 50% of the largest weight are considered "skipped phases" for the next fraction. For the following fraction, the beam trigger is regulated to prevent beam layers from starting irradiation in skipped phases by extending the interval between each layer. To calculate dose-volume histogram (DVH), the dose of the target volume at end-exhale (50% phase) was calculated as the sum of each energy layer, with consideration of displacement due to respiratory motion and relative beam weight delivered per respiratory phase. RESULTS For a single fraction, D1% , D99% , and V100% were 114%, 88%, and 32%, respectively, when 8 Gy/min of dose rate was simulated. Although these parameters were improved with multiple fractions, dosimetric inhomogeneity without motion management remained even at 30 fractions, with V100% 86.9% at 30 fractions. In contrast, the V100% values with adaptation were 96% and 98% at 20 and 30 fractions, respectively. We developed an offline correction technique for USPB therapy to compensate for the interplay effects between respiratory organ motion and USPB beam delivery. CONCLUSIONS For liver tumor, this adaptive therapy technique showed significant improvement in dose uniformity even with fewer treatment fractions than normal USPB therapy.
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- Yuichi Akino
- Oncology CenterOsaka University HospitalSuitaOsakaJapan
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- Department of BioHealth InformaticsSchool of Informatics and ComputingIndiana University‐Purdue University IndianapolisIndianapolisIndianaUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyNew York University Langone Medical CenterLaura and IsaacPerlmutter Cancer CenterNew YorkNYUSA
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Marants R, Vandervoort E, Cygler JE. Evaluation of the 4D RADPOS dosimetry system for dose and position quality assurance of CyberKnife. Med Phys 2018; 45:4030-4044. [PMID: 30043980 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE The Synchrony respiratory motion tracking of the CyberKnife system purports to provide real-time tumor motion compensation during robotic radiosurgery. Such a complex delivery system requires thorough quality assurance. In this work, RADPOS applicability as a dose and position quality assurance tool for CyberKnife treatments is assessed quantitatively for different phantom types and breathing motions, which increase in complexity to more closely resemble clinical situations. METHODS Two radiotherapy treatment experiments were performed where dose and position were measured with the RADPOS probe housed within a Solid Water phantom. For the first experiment, a Solid Water breast phantom was irradiated using isocentric beam delivery while stationary or moving sinusoidally in the anterior/posterior direction. For the second experiment, a phantom consisting of a Solid Water tumor in lung equivalent material was irradiated using isocentric and non-isocentric beam delivery while either stationary or moving. The phantom movement was either sinusoidal or based on a real patient's breathing waveform. For each experiment, RADPOS dose measurements were compared to EBT3 GafChromic film dose measurements and the CyberKnife treatment planning system's (TPS) Monte Carlo and ray-tracing dose calculation algorithms. RADPOS position measurements were compared to measurements made by the CyberKnife system and to the predicted breathing motion models used by the Synchrony respiratory motion compensation. RESULTS For the static and dynamic (i.e., sinusoidal motion) cases of the breast experiment, RADPOS, film and the TPS agreed at the 2.0% level within 1.1 σ of estimated combined uncertainties. RADPOS position measurements were in good agreement with LED and fiducial position measurements, where the average standard deviation (SD) of the differences between any two of the three position datasets was ≤0.5 mm for all directions. For the 10 mm peak to peak amplitude sinusoidal motion of the breast experiment, the average Synchrony correlation errors were ≤0.2 mm, indicative of an accurate predictive model. For all the cases of the lung experiment, RADPOS and film measurements agreed with each other at the 2.0% level within 1.5 σ of estimated experimental uncertainties provided that the measurements were corrected for imaging dose. The measured dose for RADPOS and film were 4.0% and 3.4% higher, respectively, than the TPS for the most complex dynamic cases (i.e., irregular motion) considered for the lung experiment. Assessment of the Synchrony correlation models by RADPOS showed that model accuracy declined as motion complexity increased; the SD of the differences between RADPOS and model position data measurements was ≤0.8 mm for sinusoidal motion but increased to ≤2.6 mm for irregular patient waveform motion. These results agreed with the Synchrony correlation errors reported by the CyberKnife system. CONCLUSIONS RADPOS is an accurate and precise QA tool for dose and position measurements for CyberKnife deliveries with respiratory motion compensation.
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- Raanan Marants
- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
- Department of Medical Physics, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L6, Canada
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A Prospective Cohort Study of Gated Stereotactic Liver Radiation Therapy Using Continuous Internal Electromagnetic Motion Monitoring. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2018; 101:366-375. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2017] [Revised: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Ding C, Saw CB, Timmerman RD. Cyberknife stereotactic radiosurgery and radiation therapy treatment planning system. Med Dosim 2018; 43:129-140. [PMID: 29605528 DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2018.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/15/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
Abstract
CyberKnife is an image-guided stereotactical dose delivery system designed for both focal irradiation and radiation therapy (SRT). Focal irradiation refers the use of many small beams to deliver highly focus dose to a small target region in a few fractions. The system consists of a 6-MV linac mounted to a robotic arm, coupled with a digital x-ray imaging system. The radiation dose is delivered using many beams oriented at a number of defined or nodal positions around the patients. The CyberKnife can be used for both intracranial and extracranial treaments unlike the Gamma Knife which is limited to intracranial cases. Multiplan (Accuray Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) is the treatment planning system developed to cooperate with this accurate and versatile SRS and SRT system, and exploit the full function of Cyberknife in high-precision radiosurgery and therapy. Optimized inverse treatment plan can be achieved by fine-tuning contours and planning parameters. Precision is the newest version of Cyberknife treatment planning system (TPS) and an upgrade to Multiplan. It offers several new features such as Monte Carlo for multileaf collimator (MLC) and retreatment for other modalities that added more support for the Cyberknife system. The Cybeknife TPS is an easy-to-use and versatile inverse planning platform, suitable for stereotactic radiosurgery and radiation therapy. The knowledge and experience of the planner in this TPS is essential to improve the quality of patient care.
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- Chuxiong Ding
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX USA.
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- Northeast Radiation Oncology Centers (NROC), Dunmore, PA USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX USA
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Bertholet J, Toftegaard J, Hansen R, Worm ES, Wan H, Parikh PJ, Weber B, Høyer M, Poulsen PR. Automatic online and real-time tumour motion monitoring during stereotactic liver treatments on a conventional linac by combined optical and sparse monoscopic imaging with kilovoltage x-rays (COSMIK). Phys Med Biol 2018. [PMID: 29516868 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaae8b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to develop, validate and clinically demonstrate fully automatic tumour motion monitoring on a conventional linear accelerator by combined optical and sparse monoscopic imaging with kilovoltage x-rays (COSMIK). COSMIK combines auto-segmentation of implanted fiducial markers in cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) projections and intra-treatment kV images with simultaneous streaming of an external motion signal. A pre-treatment CBCT is acquired with simultaneous recording of the motion of an external marker block on the abdomen. The 3-dimensional (3D) marker motion during the CBCT is estimated from the auto-segmented positions in the projections and used to optimize an external correlation model (ECM) of internal motion as a function of external motion. During treatment, the ECM estimates the internal motion from the external motion at 20 Hz. KV images are acquired every 3 s, auto-segmented, and used to update the ECM for baseline shifts between internal and external motion. The COSMIK method was validated using Calypso-recorded internal tumour motion with simultaneous camera-recorded external motion for 15 liver stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) patients. The validation included phantom experiments and simulations hereof for 12 fractions and further simulations for 42 fractions. The simulations compared the accuracy of COSMIK with ECM-based monitoring without model updates and with model updates based on stereoscopic imaging as well as continuous kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring (KIM) at 10 Hz without an external signal. Clinical real-time tumour motion monitoring with COSMIK was performed offline for 14 liver SBRT patients (41 fractions) and online for one patient (two fractions). The mean 3D root-mean-square error for the four monitoring methods was 1.61 mm (COSMIK), 2.31 mm (ECM without updates), 1.49 mm (ECM with stereoscopic updates) and 0.75 mm (KIM). COSMIK is the first combined kV/optical real-time motion monitoring method used clinically online on a conventional accelerator. COSMIK gives less imaging dose than KIM and is in addition applicable when the kV imager cannot be deployed such as during non-coplanar fields.
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- Jenny Bertholet
- Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. Current address: Joint Department of Physics, The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Meyer J, Singal AG. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: History, current status, and opportunities. Liver Transpl 2018; 24:420-427. [PMID: 29205797 DOI: 10.1002/lt.24991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A variety of surgical and other local-regional approaches to the management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are in clinical use. External beam radiation therapy is a relative newcomer to the portfolio of treatment options. Advances in planning and delivery of radiation therapy, developing in parallel with and inspiring changing paradigms of tumor management in the field of radiation oncology, have led to growing interest in radiation therapy as a viable treatment option for HCC as well as other liver tumors. In this review, we discuss these advances, current trends in liver radiotherapy, as well as avenues of future clinical and basic research. Liver Transplantation 24 420-427 2018 AASLD.
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- Jeffrey Meyer
- Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Mediciner, Baltimore, MD
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- Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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Nakayama M, Nishimura H, Mayahara H, Nakamura M, Uehara K, Tsudou S, Harada A, Akasaka H, Sasaki R. Clinical log data analysis for assessing the accuracy of the CyberKnife fiducial-free lung tumor tracking system. Pract Radiat Oncol 2018; 8:e63-e70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2017.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Revised: 10/11/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Liang Z, Liu H, Xue J, Hu B, Zhu B, Li Q, Zhang S, Wu G. Evaluation of the intra- and interfractional tumor motion and variability by fiducial-based real-time tracking in liver stereotactic body radiation therapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2018; 19:94-100. [PMID: 29493095 PMCID: PMC5978939 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Tumor motion amplitude varies during treatment. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the intra- and interfraction tumor motion and variability in patients with liver cancer treated with fiducial-based real-time tracking stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). METHODS Fourteen liver patients were treated with SBRT using a CyberKnife. Two to four fiducial markers implanted near the tumor were used for real-time monitoring using the Synchrony system. The tumor motion information during treatment was extracted from the log files recorded by the Synchrony system. Logfile-based amplitudes in the superior-posterior (SI), left-right (LR) and anterior-posterior (AP) directions were compared to the 4DCT-based amplitudes. The intra- and interfraction amplitude variations and the incidence of baseline shifts were analyzed for 66 fractions administered to 14 patients. RESULTS The median (range) logfile-based liver motion amplitudes for all patients were 11.9 (5.1-17.3) mm, 1.3 (0.4-4) mm and 3.8 (0.9-7.7) mm in the SI, LR and AP directions, respectively. Compared with the logfile-based amplitude, the 4DCT-based amplitude was underestimated (P < 0.05). The median (range) intra- and interfraction liver motion amplitude variations were 4.3 (1.6-6.0) mm (SI), 0.5 (0.2-2.2) mm(LR) and 1.5 (0.3-3.3) mm (AP) and 1.7 (0.5-4.6) mm (SI), 0.3 (0.1-3.0) mm (LR) and 0.7 (0.3-2.7) mm (AP), respectively. Baseline shifts exceeding 2 mm, 3 mm and 5 mm were observed in 27.3%, 7.6% and 3% of the measurements, respectively, within 10 min, and in 66.7%, 38.1% and 19%, respectively, within 30 min for the square root of the sum of the squares of the distances in the SI, LR and AP directions (3D). The tumor motion amplitude was found to be correlated with the baseline shift. CONCLUSIONS Most patients showed significant intra- and interfraction liver motion amplitude variations over the entire course of radiation. More caution is needed for patients with large tumor motion amplitudes.
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Robots have been found to be a useful tool in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided intervention. The utility of robots in MRI-guided therapy ranges from aid for precision targeting to high-dexterity surgical tools to improve or even enable new MRI-guided therapy options. The objective of this article is to review the technical aspects of robotics in MRI-guided interventions, highlight the role of MRI robots in prostate interventions, and finally discuss the future contribution of emerging robotics technology useful in MRI-guided intervention.
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Beilla S, Younes T, Vieillevigne L, Bardies M, Franceries X, Simon L. Monte Carlo dose calculation in presence of low-density media: Application to lung SBRT treated during DIBH. Phys Med 2017; 41:46-52. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Revised: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 04/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Yoganathan SA, Maria Das KJ, Agarwal A, Kumar S. Magnitude, Impact, and Management of Respiration-induced Target Motion in Radiotherapy Treatment: A Comprehensive Review. J Med Phys 2017; 42:101-115. [PMID: 28974854 PMCID: PMC5618455 DOI: 10.4103/jmp.jmp_22_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 05/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Tumors in thoracic and upper abdomen regions such as lungs, liver, pancreas, esophagus, and breast move due to respiration. Respiration-induced motion introduces uncertainties in radiotherapy treatments of these sites and is regarded as a significant bottleneck in achieving highly conformal dose distributions. Recent developments in radiation therapy have resulted in (i) motion-encompassing, (ii) respiratory gating, and (iii) tracking methods for adapting the radiation beam aperture to account for the respiration-induced target motion. The purpose of this review is to discuss the magnitude, impact, and management of respiration-induced tumor motion.
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- S. A. Yoganathan
- Department of Radiotherapy, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Lamb JM, Ginn JS, O'Connell DP, Agazaryan N, Cao M, Thomas DH, Yang Y, Lazea M, Lee P, Low DA. Dosimetric validation of a magnetic resonance image gated radiotherapy system using a motion phantom and radiochromic film. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2017; 18:163-169. [PMID: 28436094 PMCID: PMC5689863 DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Revised: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Magnetic resonance image (MRI) guided radiotherapy enables gating directly on the target position. We present an evaluation of an MRI-guided radiotherapy system's gating performance using an MRI-compatible respiratory motion phantom and radiochromic film. Our evaluation is geared toward validation of our institution's clinical gating protocol which involves planning to a target volume formed by expanding 5 mm about the gross tumor volume (GTV) and gating based on a 3 mm window about the GTV. METHODS The motion phantom consisted of a target rod containing high-contrast target inserts which moved in the superior-inferior direction inside a body structure containing background contrast material. The target rod was equipped with a radiochromic film insert. Treatment plans were generated for a 3 cm diameter spherical planning target volume, and delivered to the phantom at rest and in motion with and without gating. Both sinusoidal trajectories and tumor trajectories measured during MRI-guided treatments were used. Similarity of the gated dose distribution to the planned, motion-frozen, distribution was quantified using the gamma technique. RESULTS Without gating, gamma pass rates using 4%/3 mm criteria were 22-59% depending on motion trajectory. Using our clinical standard of repeated breath holds and a gating window of 3 mm with 10% target allowed outside the gating boundary, the gamma pass rate was 97.8% with 3%/3 mm gamma criteria. Using a 3 mm window and 10% allowed excursion, all of the patient tumor motion trajectories at actual speed resulting in at least 95% gamma pass rate at 4%/3 mm. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that the device can be used to compensate respiratory motion using a 3 mm gating margin and 10% allowed excursion results in conjunction with repeated breath holds. Full clinical validation requires a comprehensive evaluation of tracking performance in actual patient images, outside the scope of this study.
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- James M. Lamb
- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyUniversity of Colorado DenverDenverCOUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Computerized Imaging Reference Systems, Inc.NorfolkVAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyDavid Geffen School of MedicineUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCAUSA
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Innovations in Radiotherapy Technology. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2017; 29:120-128. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2016.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 09/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Li G, Wei J, Huang H, Chen Q, Gaebler CP, Lin T, Yuan A, Rimner A, Mechalakos J. Characterization of optical-surface-imaging-based spirometry for respiratory surrogating in radiotherapy. Med Phys 2016; 43:1348-60. [PMID: 26936719 DOI: 10.1118/1.4941951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To provide a comprehensive characterization of a novel respiratory surrogate that uses optical surface imaging (OSI) for accurate tidal volume (TV) measurement, dynamic airflow (TV') calculation, and quantitative breathing pattern (BP) estimation during free breathing (FB), belly breathing (BB), chest breathing (CB), and breath hold (BH). METHODS Optical surface imaging, which captures all respiration-induced torso surface motion, was applied to measure respiratory TV, TV', and BP in three common breathing patterns. Eleven healthy volunteers participated in breathing experiments with concurrent OSI-based and conventional spirometric measurements under an institutional review board approved protocol. This OSI-based technique measures dynamic TV from torso volume change (ΔVtorso = TV) in reference to full exhalation and airflow (TV' = dTV/dt). Volume conservation, excluding exchanging air, was applied for OSI-based measurements under negligible pleural pressure variation in FB, BB, and CB. To demonstrate volume conservation, a constant TV was measured during BH while the chest and belly are moving ("pretended" respiration). To assess the accuracy of OSI-based spirometry, a conventional spirometer was used as the standard for both TV and TV'. Using OSI, BP was measured as BP(OSI) = ΔVchest/ΔVtorso and BP can be visualized using BP(SHI) = SHIchest/(SHIchest + SHIbelly), where surface height index (SHI) is defined as the mean vertical distance within a region of interest on the torso surface. A software tool was developed for OSI image processing, volume calculation, and BP visualization, and another tool was implemented for data acquisition using a Bernoulli-type spirometer. RESULTS The accuracy of the OSI-based spirometry is -21 ± 33 cm(3) or -3.5% ± 6.3% averaged from 11 volunteers with 76 ± 28 breathing cycles on average in FB. Breathing variations between two separate acquisitions with approximate 30-min intervals are substantial: -1% ± 34% (ranging from -64% to 40%) in TV, 4% ± 20% (ranging from -50% to 26%) in breathing period (T), and -1% ± 34% (ranging from -49% to 44%) in BP. The airflow accuracy and variation (between two exercises) are -1 ± 54 cm(3)/s and -5% ± 30%, respectively. The slope of linear regression between OSI-TV and spirometric TV is 0.93 (R(2) = 0.95) for FB, 0.96 (R(2) = 0.98) for BB, and 0.95 (R(2) = 0.95) for CB. The correlation between the two spirometric measurements is 0.98 ± 0.01. BP increases from BB, FB to CB, while TV increases from FB, BB, to CB. Under BH, 4% volume variation (range) on average was observed. CONCLUSIONS The OSI-based technique provides an accurate measurement of tidal volume, airflow rate, and breathing pattern; all affect internal organ motion. This technique can be applied to various breathing patterns, including FB, BB, and CB. Substantial breathing irregularities and irreproducibility were observed and quantified with the OSI-based technique. These breathing parameters are useful to quantify breathing conditions, which could be used for effective tumor motion predictions.
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- Guang Li
- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Computer Science, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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- Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065
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Kim YJ, Seo JH, Kim HR, Kim KG. Impedance and admittance control for respiratory-motion compensation during robotic needle insertion - a preliminary test. Int J Med Robot 2016; 13. [PMID: 27915466 DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Revised: 10/23/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Many robotic needle-biopsy systems have been developed to enhance the accuracy of needle-biopsy intervention. These systems can reduce the intervention time and the radiation exposure of clinicians. However, respiratory-motion compensation is needed to ensure the accuracy and efficiency of needle biopsy intervention. METHODS Human respiratory-motion data were acquired using three inertial measurement units (IMUs), and respiratory motion was simulated using the Stewart-Gough platform. Robotic needle intervention was performed using impedance and admittance control algorithms for respiratory-motion compensation using the Stewart-Gough platform and a gelatin phantom. RESULTS The impedance and admittance control algorithms can be used to compensate for respiratory motion during robotic needle insertion. The admittance control algorithm exhibits better performance than the impedance control algorithm. CONCLUSIONS The impedance and admittance control algorithms can be applied for respiratory-motion compensation during robotic needle insertion. However, further study is needed for them to become clinically feasible.
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- Yeoun Jae Kim
- Biomedical Engineering Branch, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 410-769, South Korea
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- Biomedical Engineering Branch, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 410-769, South Korea
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- Biomedical Engineering Branch, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 410-769, South Korea
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- Biomedical Engineering Branch, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 410-769, South Korea
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Feain I, Shieh CC, White P, O'Brien R, Fisher S, Counter W, Lazarakis P, Stewart D, Downes S, Jackson M, Baxi S, Whelan B, Makhija K, Huang CY, Barton M, Keall P. Functional imaging equivalence and proof of concept for image-guided adaptive radiotherapy with fixed gantry and rotating couch. Adv Radiat Oncol 2016; 1:365-372. [PMID: 28740907 PMCID: PMC5514241 DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2015] [Revised: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Purpose The purpose of this article is to present the first imaging experiments to demonstrate the functional equivalence between a conventional rotational gantry and a fixed-beam imaging geometry, and the feasibility of an iterative image-reconstruction technique under gravitational deformation. Methods and materials Experiments were performed using an Elekta Axesse with Agility MLC and XVI, a custom-built rotating phantom stage, a Catphan QA phantom, and a porcine heart. For the imaging equivalence, a conventional cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) of the Catphan was acquired, as well as a set of 660 x-ray projections with a static gantry and rotating Catphan. Both datasets were reconstructed with the Feldkamp-Davis-Kress (FDK) algorithm, and the resultant volumetric images were compared using standard metrics. For imaging under gravitational deformation, a conventional CBCT of the Catphan and a set of 660 x-ray projections with a static gantry and rotating Catphan were also acquired with a porcine heart. The conventional CBCT was reconstructed using FDK. The projections that were acquired with the heart rotating were sorted into angular bins and reconstructed with prior image constrained compressed sensing using a deformation-blurred FDK prior. Deformation was quantified with B-spline transformation-based deformable image registration. Results For imaging equivalence, the difference between the two Catphan images was consistent with Poisson noise. For imaging under gravitational deformation, the conventional CBCT porcine heart image (ground truth at 0 degrees) matched the static gantry, rotating heart reconstruction with a mean magnitude of <3 mm and maximum magnitude of <5 mm of the deformation vector field. The mean deformation of the rotating heart was 3.0 to 8.9 mm, up to 16.1 mm maximum deformation. Deformation was mainly observed in the direction of gravity. Conclusions We have demonstrated imaging equivalence in cone beam CT reconstructions between rigid phantom images acquired with a conventional rotating gantry and with a fixed-gantry and rotating phantom. We have presented a method for image reconstruction under a fixed-beam imaging geometry using a deformable phantom.
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- Ilana Feain
- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, South West Radiation Oncology Service, Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CCORE), Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, University of New South Wales, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CCORE), Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, University of New South Wales, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
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- Radiation Physics Laboratory, Central Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Anetai Y, Sumida I, Takahashi Y, Yagi M, Mizuno H, Ota S, Suzuki O, Tamari K, Seo Y, Ogawa K. A concept for classification of optimal breathing pattern for use in radiotherapy tracking, based on respiratory tumor kinematics and minimum jerk analysis. Med Phys 2016; 43:3168-3177. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4951731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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O'Shea T, Bamber J, Fontanarosa D, van der Meer S, Verhaegen F, Harris E. Review of ultrasound image guidance in external beam radiotherapy part II: intra-fraction motion management and novel applications. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:R90-137. [PMID: 27002558 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/8/r90] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Imaging has become an essential tool in modern radiotherapy (RT), being used to plan dose delivery prior to treatment and verify target position before and during treatment. Ultrasound (US) imaging is cost-effective in providing excellent contrast at high resolution for depicting soft tissue targets apart from those shielded by the lungs or cranium. As a result, it is increasingly used in RT setup verification for the measurement of inter-fraction motion, the subject of Part I of this review (Fontanarosa et al 2015 Phys. Med. Biol. 60 R77-114). The combination of rapid imaging and zero ionising radiation dose makes US highly suitable for estimating intra-fraction motion. The current paper (Part II of the review) covers this topic. The basic technology for US motion estimation, and its current clinical application to the prostate, is described here, along with recent developments in robust motion-estimation algorithms, and three dimensional (3D) imaging. Together, these are likely to drive an increase in the number of future clinical studies and the range of cancer sites in which US motion management is applied. Also reviewed are selections of existing and proposed novel applications of US imaging to RT. These are driven by exciting developments in structural, functional and molecular US imaging and analytical techniques such as backscatter tissue analysis, elastography, photoacoustography, contrast-specific imaging, dynamic contrast analysis, microvascular and super-resolution imaging, and targeted microbubbles. Such techniques show promise for predicting and measuring the outcome of RT, quantifying normal tissue toxicity, improving tumour definition and defining a biological target volume that describes radiation sensitive regions of the tumour. US offers easy, low cost and efficient integration of these techniques into the RT workflow. US contrast technology also has potential to be used actively to assist RT by manipulating the tumour cell environment and by improving the delivery of radiosensitising agents. Finally, US imaging offers various ways to measure dose in 3D. If technical problems can be overcome, these hold potential for wide-dissemination of cost-effective pre-treatment dose verification and in vivo dose monitoring methods. It is concluded that US imaging could eventually contribute to all aspects of the RT workflow.
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- Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, London SM2 5NG, UK
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Sumida I, Shiomi H, Higashinaka N, Murashima Y, Miyamoto Y, Yamazaki H, Mabuchi N, Tsuda E, Ogawa K. Evaluation of tracking accuracy of the CyberKnife system using a webcam and printed calibrated grid. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2016; 17:74-84. [PMID: 27074474 PMCID: PMC5875552 DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v17i2.5914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Revised: 11/04/2015] [Accepted: 10/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Tracking accuracy for the CyberKnife's Synchrony system is commonly evaluated using a film‐based verification method. We have evaluated a verification system that uses a webcam and a printed calibrated grid to verify tracking accuracy over three different motion patterns. A box with an attached printed calibrated grid and four fiducial markers was attached to the motion phantom. A target marker was positioned at the grid's center. The box was set up using the other three markers. Target tracking accuracy was evaluated under three conditions: 1) stationary; 2) sinusoidal motion with different amplitudes of 5, 10, 15, and 20 mm for the same cycle of 4 s and different cycles of 2, 4, 6, and 8 s with the same amplitude of 15 mm; and 3) irregular breathing patterns in six human volunteers breathing normally. Infrared markers were placed on the volunteers’ abdomens, and their trajectories were used to simulate the target motion. All tests were performed with one‐dimensional motion in craniocaudal direction. The webcam captured the grid's motion and a laser beam was used to simulate the CyberKnife's beam. Tracking error was defined as the difference between the grid's center and the laser beam. With a stationary target, mean tracking error was measured at 0.4 mm. For sinusoidal motion, tracking error was less than 2 mm for any amplitude and breathing cycle. For the volunteers’ breathing patterns, the mean tracking error range was 0.78‐1.67 mm. Therefore, accurate lesion targeting requires individual quality assurance for each patient. PACS number(s): 87.55.D‐, 87.55.km, 87.55.Qr, 87.56.Fc
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- Iori Sumida
- Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; CyberKnife Center.
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Ikeda T, Yoshizawa S, Koizumi N, Mitsuishi M, Matsumoto Y. Focused Ultrasound and Lithotripsy. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2016; 880:113-29. [PMID: 26486335 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22536-4_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Shock wave lithotripsy has generally been a first choice for kidney stone removal. The shock wave lithotripter uses an order of microsecond pulse durations and up to a 100 MPa pressure spike triggered at approximately 0.5-2 Hz to fragment kidney stones through mechanical mechanisms. One important mechanism is cavitation. We proposed an alternative type of lithotripsy method that maximizes cavitation activity to disintegrate kidney stones using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). Here we outline the method according to the previously published literature (Matsumoto et al., Dynamics of bubble cloud in focused ultrasound. Proceedings of the second international symposium on therapeutic ultrasound, pp 290-299, 2002; Ikeda et al., Ultrasound Med Biol 32:1383-1397, 2006; Yoshizawa et al., Med Biol Eng Comput 47:851-860, 2009; Koizumi et al., A control framework for the non-invasive ultrasound the ragnostic system. Proceedings of 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), pp 4511-4516, 2009; Koizumi et al., IEEE Trans Robot 25:522-538, 2009). Cavitation activity is highly unpredictable; thus, a precise control system is needed. The proposed method comprises three steps of control in kidney stone treatment. The first step is control of localized high pressure fluctuation on the stone. The second step is monitoring of cavitation activity and giving feedback on the optimized ultrasound conditions. The third step is stone tracking and precise ultrasound focusing on the stone. For the high pressure control we designed a two-frequency wave (cavitation control (C-C) waveform); a high frequency ultrasound pulse (1-4 MHz) to create a cavitation cloud, and a low frequency trailing pulse (0.5 MHz) following the high frequency pulse to force the cloud into collapse. High speed photography showed cavitation collapse on a kidney stone and shock wave emission from the cloud. We also conducted in-vitro erosion tests of model and natural kidney stones. For the model stones, the erosion rate of the C-C waveform showed a distinct advantage with the combined high and low frequency waves over either wave alone. For optimization of the high frequency ultrasound intensity, we investigated the relationship between subharmonic emission from cavitation bubbles and stone erosion volume. For stone tracking we have also developed a non-invasive ultrasound theragnostic system (NIUTS) that compensates for kidney motion. Natural stones were eroded and most of the resulting fragments were less than 1 mm in diameter. The small fragments were small enough to pass through the urethra. The results demonstrate that, with the precise control of cavitation activity, focused ultrasound has the potential to be used to develop a less invasive and more controllable lithotripsy system.
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- Department of Communications Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Lischalk JW, Kole TP, Anjum HM, Obayomi-Davies O, Rashid A, Unger K. Four-dimensional computed tomography prediction of inter- and intrafractional upper gastrointestinal tumor motion during fractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 2015; 6:176-182. [PMID: 26746816 DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2015.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Revised: 09/25/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE Respiratory-induced tumor motion of upper gastrointestinal (GI) tumors during radiation therapy is often assessed using a single 4-dimensional computed tomography (4D-CT) and presumed to be representative during fractionated treatment regimens. The purpose of this study was to examine the intra- and interfraction correlations of tumor motion between pretreatment 4D-CT and real-time fiducial-based motion tracking in patients treated with fractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for upper GI malignancies. METHODS AND MATERIALS Fourteen patients with upper GI tumors underwent fractionated SBRT using the CyberKnife radiosurgical system with Synchrony respiratory motion management. Before treatment, each patient underwent a free-breathing 4D-CT scan and fiducial motion was tracked for each phase of the respiratory cycle. Real-time fiducial positions recorded during delivery of each SBRT fraction were extracted from the CyberKnife planning system. Displacements were compared between those predicted by 4D-CT and those recorded by Synchrony during treatment in the left-right (LR), anteroposterior (AP), and superoinferior (SI) directions. RESULTS The 4D-CT scans demonstrated little correlation with real-time mean fiducial displacement as determined by Pearson correlation with coefficients of 0.45, 0.52, and 0.63 in the SI, AP, and LR directions, respectively. Cohort-averaged maximum fiducial displacements based on 4D-CT and real-time tracking were measured to be 3.86 ± 1.40 mm versus 10.73 ± 7.03 mm, 2.29 ± 1.02 mm versus 4.44 ± 3.33 mm, and 1.45 ± 0.49 mm versus 2.67 ± 2.49 mm in the SI, AP, and LR directions, respectively. Mean fiducial displacements were greater than that predicted by the maximum displacements on the corresponding 4D-CT scan in 39%, 22%, and 25% of SBRT fractions in the SI, AP, and LR directions, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Comparison of 4D-CT with real-time fiducial tracking demonstrated significant inter- and intrafractional discrepancies, particularly in the SI direction, which could result in compromise of target coverage when planning with a single free-breathing 4D-CT.
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- Jonathan W Lischalk
- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
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Anetai Y, Sumida I, Takahashi Y, Yagi M, Ota S, Mizuno H, Ogawa K. Reference respiratory waveforms by minimum jerk model analysis. Med Phys 2015; 42:5066-74. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4927557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Guo Y, Zhuang H, Zhao L, Yuan Z, Wang P. Influence of different image-guided tracking methods upon the local efficacy of CyberKnife treatment in lung tumors. Thorac Cancer 2015; 6:255-9. [PMID: 26273370 PMCID: PMC4448395 DOI: 10.1111/1759-7714.12174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the influence of image-guided tumor localization modality (Synchrony tracking vs. Xsight spine-based localization) on the local efficacy of CyberKnife treatment in lung cancer and lung metastases. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 64 patients with pulmonary metastases and primary tumor cases (72 targets) treated with stereotactic body radiotherapy using CyberKnife was conducted. Synchrony respiratory tracking was used to treat 45 targets, and the remaining 27 targets were treated using Xsight spine (with an extended margin to account for positional uncertainty). The median (80%) isodose line (70-94%) covered the planning target volume at a total dose of 6000 cGy delivered in three fractions. Local efficacy was evaluated by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, accompanied by the follow-up of local recurrence cases and analysis of tracking methods. RESULTS Short-term local control was superior for targets tracked with Synchrony than for targets localized with Xsight spine. There was no statistical difference for targets in the upper lung, but for targets in the lower lung Synchrony tracking was better. Small targets (less than 15 mL) were better controlled when Synchrony was used, but there was no difference for treatment volumes larger than 15 mL. Treatment failures were more likely in the lower lung and for small tumors localized with Xsight spine. CONCLUSIONS The local efficacy of CyberKnife treatment in lung cancer and lung metastases was influenced by image-guided localization method, target location within the lung, and tumor volume.
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- Yihang Guo
- Department of Radiotherapy, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy Tianjin, China
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