Combination effects of tissue heterogeneity and geometric targeting error in stereotactic body radiotherapy for lung cancer using CyberKnifeopen access
- Authors
- Kang, Ki Mun; Jeong, Bae Kwon; Choi, Hoon-Sik; Yoo, Seung Hoon; Hwang, Ui-Jung; Lim, Young Kyung; Jeong, Hojin
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- stereotactic body radiotherapy; SBRT; lung cancer; effective path length correction; Monte Carlo; tissue heterogeneity; geometric error
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF APPLIED CLINICAL MEDICAL PHYSICS, v.16, no.5, pp.193 - 204
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF APPLIED CLINICAL MEDICAL PHYSICS
- Volume
- 16
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 193
- End Page
- 204
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gnu/handle/sw.gnu/18521
- DOI
- 10.1120/jacmp.v16i5.5397
- ISSN
- 1526-9914
- Abstract
- We have investigated the combined effect of tissue heterogeneity and its variation associated with geometric error in stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung cancer. The treatment plans for eight lung cancer patients were calculated using effective path length (EPL) correction and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms, with both having the same beam configuration for each patient. These two kinds of plans for individual patients were then subsequently recalculated with adding systematic and random geometric errors. In the ordinary treatment plans calculated with no geometric offset, the EPL calculations, compared with the MC calculations, largely overestimated the doses to PTV by similar to 21%, whereas the overestimation were markedly lower in GTV by similar to 12% due to relatively higher density of GTV than of PTV. When recalculating the plans for individual patients with assigning the systematic and random geometric errors, no significant changes in the relative dose distribution, except for overall shift, were observed in the EPL calculations, whereas largely altered in the MC calculations with a consistent increase in dose to GTV. Considering the better accuracy of MC than EPL algorithms, the present results demonstrated the strong coupling of tissue heterogeneity and geometric error, thereby emphasizing the essential need for simultaneous correction for tissue heterogeneity and geometric targeting error in SBRT of lung cancer.
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