Repeated deep-inspiration breath-hold CT scans at planning underestimate the actual motion between breath-holds at treatment for lung cancer and lymphoma patients

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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE: Deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) during radiotherapy may reduce dose to the lungs and heart compared to treatment in free breathing. However, intra-fractional target shifts between several breath-holds may decrease target coverage. We compared target shifts between four DIBHs at the planning-CT session with those measured on CBCT-scans obtained pre- and post-DIBH treatments.

MATERIAL/METHODS: Twenty-nine lung cancer and nine lymphoma patients were treated in DIBH. An external gating block was used as surrogate for the DIBH-level with a window of 2 mm. Four DIBH CT-scans were acquired: one for planning (CTDIBH3) and three additional (CTDIBH1,2,4) to assess the intra-DIBH target shifts at scanning by registration to CTDIBH3. During treatment, pre-treatment (CBCTpre) and post-treatment (CBCTpost) scans were acquired. For each pair of CBCTpre/post, the target intra-DIBH shift was determined. For lung cancer, tumour (GTV-Tlung) and lymph nodes (GTV-Nlung) were analysed separately. Group mean (GM), systematic and random errors, and GM for the absolute maximum shifts (GMmax) were calculated for the shifts between CTDIBH1,2,3,4 and between CBCTpre/post.

RESULTS: For GTV-Tlung, GMmax was larger at CBCT than CT in all directions. GMmax in cranio-caudal direction was 3.3 mm (CT)and 6.1 mm (CBCT). The standard deviations of the shifts in the left-right and cranio-caudal directions were larger at CBCT than CT. For GTV-Nlung and CTVlymphoma, no difference was found in GMmax or SD.

CONCLUSION: Intra-DIBH shifts at planning-CT session are generally smaller than intra-DIBH shifts observed at CBCTpre/post and therefore underestimate the intra-fractional DIBH uncertainty during treatment. Lung tumours show larger intra-fractional variations than lymph nodes and lymphoma targets.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:188

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Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - 188(2023) vom: 15. Nov., Seite 109887

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hoffmann, Lone [VerfasserIn]
Ehmsen, M L [VerfasserIn]
Hansen, J [VerfasserIn]
Hansen, R [VerfasserIn]
Knap, M M [VerfasserIn]
Mortensen, H R [VerfasserIn]
Poulsen, P R [VerfasserIn]
Ravkilde, T [VerfasserIn]
Rose, H K [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, H H [VerfasserIn]
Worm, E S [VerfasserIn]
Møller, D S [VerfasserIn]

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DIBH
Intra-fraction
Journal Article
Lung cancer
Lymphoma

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Date Revised 22.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.radonc.2023.109887

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NLM361573995