Evaluation of OAR dose sparing and plan robustness of beam-specific PTV in lung cancer IMRT treatment
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Evaluation of OAR dose sparing and plan robustness of beam‑specific PTV in lung cancer IMRT treatment Yu Chang1†, Feng Xiao2†, Hong Quan2* and Zhiyong Yang1*
Abstract Purpose: Margins are employed in radiotherapy treatment planning to mitigate the dosimetric effects of geometric uncertainties for the clinical target volume (CTV). Here, we proposed a margin concept that takes into consideration the beam direction, thereby generating a beam-specific planning target volume (BSPTV) on a beam entrance view. The total merged BSPTV was considered a target for optimization. We investigated the impact of this novel approach for lung intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) treatment, and compared the treatment plans generated using BSPTV with general PTV. Methods and materials: We generated the BSPTV by expanding the CTV perpendicularly to the incident beam direction using the 2D version of van Herk’s margin concept. The BSPTV and general PTV margin were analyzed using digital phantom simulation. Fifteen lung cancer patients were used in the planning study. First, all patient targets were performed with the CTV projection area analysis to select the suitable beam angles. Then, BSPTV was generated according to the selected beam angles. IMRT plans were optimized with the general PTV and BSPTV as the target volumes, respectively. The dosimetry metrics were calculated and evaluated between these two plans. The plan robustness of both plans for setup uncertainties was evaluated using worst-case analysis. Results: Both general PTV and BSPTV plans satisfied the CTV coverage. In addition, the BSPTV plans improved the sparing of high doses to target-surrounding lung tissues compared to the general PTV plans. Both D mean of Ring PTV and Ring BSPTV were significantly lower in BSPTV plans (38.89 Gy and 39.43 Gy) compared to the general PTV plans (40.27 Gy and 40.68 Gy). The V20, V5, and mean lung dose of the affected lung were significant lower in BSPTV plans (16.20%, 28.75% and 8.93 Gy) compared to general PTV plans (16.69%, 29.22% and 9.18 Gy). In uncertainty scenarios, about 80% of target coverage was achieved for both general PTV and BSPTV plans. Conclusions: The results suggested that plan robustness can be guaranteed in both the BSPTV and general PTV plans. However, the BSPTV plan spared normal tissues, such as the lungs, significantly better compared to the general PTV plans. Keywords: OAR sparing, Plan robustness, Van Herk’s margin concept, Beam specific PTV
*Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] † Yu Chang and Feng Xiao have contributed equally to this work 1 Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China 2 Department of Medical Physics, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Introduction Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) can deliver conformal dose distributions to tumors. However, the inter-fractional uncertainties during treatment results in deviations between the plan
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