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Evaluation of the clinical feasibility of cone-beam computed tomography guided online adaption for simulation-free palliative radiotherapy.

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Background and purpose

Simulation-free radiotherapy, where diagnostic imaging is used for treatment planning, improves accessibility of radiotherapy for eligible palliative patients. Combining this pathway with online adaptive radiotherapy (oART) may improve accuracy of treatment, expanding the number of eligible patients. This study evaluated the adaptive process duration, plan dose volume histogram (DVH) metrics and geometric accuracy of a commercial cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT)-guided oART system for simulation-free, palliative radiotherapy.

Materials and methods

Ten previously treated palliative cases were used to compare system-generated contours against clinician contours in a test environment with Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC). Twenty simulation-free palliative patients were treated clinically using CBCT-guided oART. Analysis of oART clinical treatment data included; evaluation of the geometric accuracy of system-generated synthetic CT relative to session CBCT anatomy using a Likert scale, comparison of adaptive plan dose distributions to unadapted, using DVH metrics and recording the duration of key steps in the oART workflow.

Results

Auto-generated contours achieved a DSC of higher than 0.85, excluding the stomach which was attributed to CBCT image quality issues. Synthetic CT was locally aligned to CBCT anatomy for approximately 80% of fractions, with the remaining suboptimal yet clinically acceptable. Adaptive plans achieved a median CTV V95% of 99.5%, compared to 95.6% for unadapted. The median overall oART process duration was found to be 13.2 mins, with contour editing being the most time-intensive adaptive step.

Conclusions

The CBCT-guided oART system utilising a simulation-free planning approach was found to be sufficiently accurate for clinical implementation, this may further streamline and improve care for palliative patients.

SUBMITTER: Kejda A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495619 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of the clinical feasibility of cone-beam computed tomography guided online adaption for simulation-free palliative radiotherapy.

Kejda Alannah A Quinn Alexandra A Wong Shelley S Lowe Toby T Fent Isabelle I Gargett Maegan M Roderick Stephanie S Grimberg Kylie K Bergamin Sarah S Eade Thomas T Booth Jeremy J

Physics and imaging in radiation oncology 20230831

<h4>Background and purpose</h4>Simulation-free radiotherapy, where diagnostic imaging is used for treatment planning, improves accessibility of radiotherapy for eligible palliative patients. Combining this pathway with online adaptive radiotherapy (oART) may improve accuracy of treatment, expanding the number of eligible patients. This study evaluated the adaptive process duration, plan dose volume histogram (DVH) metrics and geometric accuracy of a commercial cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT ...[more]

PMID: 37705690

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