Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) dose gradient and PTV volume: a retrospective multi-center analysis
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Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) dose gradient and PTV volume: a retrospective multi-center analysis David Hoffman, Irena Dragojević, Jeremy Hoisak, David Hoopes and Ryan Manger*
Abstract Background: The treatment of lung lesions with stereotactic body radiation therapy calls for highly conformal dose, which is evaluated by a number of metrics. Lung stereotactic body radiation therapy clinical trials constrain a plans gradient index. The purpose of this work is to describe the dependence of clinically achievable dose gradient on planning target volume. Methods: Three hundred seventy-four lung stereotactic body radiation therapy treatment plans were retrospectively reviewed and selected for this study. The relationship between R50% and planning target volume size was observed and compared against the RTOG 0915 and 0813 constraints noting minor and major deviations. Then a least squares regression was used to determine the coefficients for a power functional form of the dependence of gradient measure (GM) on planning target volume size. Results: Of the 317 peripheral lung SBRT plans, 142 exhibited no deviation, 135 exhibited a minor deviation, and 40 exhibited a major deviation according to the RTOG 0915 dosimetric. conformality and dose fall-off constraints. A plot of gradient measure versus planning target volume size for peripheral lesions, excluding RTOG 0915 major deviations, is fit with an power function of GM = 0.564 V0.215. Conclusions: Using the PTV size and GM relationship we have characterized, treatment plans with PTV < 85 cm3 can be evaluated subjectively to our previously plans, and given a percentile GM. This relationship and evaluation is useful for volumetric modulated arc therapy lung stereotactic body radiation therapy treatment planning and quality control. Keywords: SBRT, Lung cancer, Radiotherapy, Gradient index, Gradient measure, Retrospective
Background In radiation oncology, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for lung lesions is an external beam radiation therapy technique that utilizes precise targeting and dose delivery of radiation with acceptable toxicity [1]. The ablative target doses delivered with SBRT are modeled after intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). Unlike conventionally fractionated radiation therapy, which achieves the therapeutic window through the relative radiosensitivity of tumor tissue compared to normal tissue, the stereotactic approach achieves the
* Correspondence: [email protected] UC San Diego Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, 3855 Health Sciences Dr. #0843, La Jolla, CA 92093-0843, USA
therapeutic window with geometric accuracy and a highly conformal dose distribution. [2–4] Lung SBRT is particularly challenging due to physiological organ and target motion (respiration). The necessary geometric accuracy has been achieved by utilizing advances in patient immobilization, tumor motion assessment, and near real time imaging studies at the time of treatment [5–7]. The high dose per fraction makes steep dose
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