Affiliation:
1. Department of Engineering and Applied Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui China
2. Department of Radiation Oncology the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei Anhui China
3. The Miller School of Medicine University of Miami Miami Florida USA
Abstract
AbstractPurposeTo investigate the dosimetry effects of different gating strategies in cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐guided breath‐hold pancreatic cancer radiotherapy.MethodsTwo 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.ResultsIn 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.ConclusionIn 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.
Funder
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Subject
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,Instrumentation,Radiation
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