Retrospective dosimetry study of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: measurement-guided
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Retrospective dosimetry study of intensitymodulated radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: measurementguided dose reconstruction and analysis Wen-zhao Sun†, Dan-dan Zhang†, Ying-lin Peng, li Chen, De-hua Kang, Bin Wang and Xiao-wu Deng*
Abstract Background: Conventional phantom-based planar dosimetry (2D-PBD) quality assurance (QA) using gamma pass rate (GP (%)) is inadequate to reflect clinically relevant dose error in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), owing to a lack of information regarding patient anatomy and volumetric dose distribution. This study aimed to evaluate the dose distribution accuracy of IMRT delivery for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which passed the 2D-PBD verification, using a measurement-guided 3D dose reconstruction (3D-MGR) method. Methods: Radiation treatment plans of 30 NPC cases and their pre-treatment 2D-PBD data were analyzed. 3D dose distribution was reconstructed on patient computed tomography (CT) images using the 3DVH software and compared to the treatment plans. Global and organ-specific dose GP (%), and dose-volume histogram (DVH) deviation of each structure was evaluated. Interdependency between GP (%) and the deviation of the volumetric dose was studied through correlation analysis. Results: The 3D-MGR achieved global GP (%) similar to conventional 2D-PBD in the same criteria. However, structure-specific GP (%) significantly decreased under stricter criteria, including the planning target volume (PTV). The average deviation of all inspected dose volumes (DV) and volumetric dose (VD) parameters ranged from − 2.93% to 1.17%, with the largest negative deviation in V100% of the PTVnx of − 15.66% and positive deviation in D1cc of the spinal cord of 6.66%. There was no significant correlation between global GP (%) of 2D-PBD or 3D-MGR and the deviation of the most volumetric dosimetry parameters (DV or VD), when the Pearson’s coefficient value of 0.8 was used for correlation evaluation. Conclusion: Even upon passing the pre-treatment phantom based dosimetric QA, there could still be risk of dose error like under-dose in PTVnx and overdose in critical structures. Measurement-guided 3D volumetric dosimetry QA is recommended as the more clinically efficient verification for the complicated NPC IMRT. Keywords: Intensity-modulated radiation therapy, Quality assurance, Dose reconstruction, Gamma pass rate
* Correspondence: [email protected] † Equal contributors State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 651 Dongfeng Road East, Guangzhou 510060, People’s Republic of China © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, pr
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