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ABSTRACT: Purpose
A study of real-time adaptive radiotherapy systems was performed to test the hypothesis that, across delivery systems and institutions, the dosimetric accuracy is improved with adaptive treatments over non-adaptive radiotherapy in the presence of patient-measured tumor motion.Methods and materials
Ten institutions with robotic(2), gimbaled(2), MLC(4) or couch tracking(2) used common materials including CT and structure sets, motion traces and planning protocols to create a lung and a prostate plan. For each motion trace, the plan was delivered twice to a moving dosimeter; with and without real-time adaptation. Each measurement was compared to a static measurement and the percentage of failed points for ?-tests recorded.Results
For all lung traces all measurement sets show improved dose accuracy with a mean 2%/2mm ?-fail rate of 1.6% with adaptation and 15.2% without adaptation (p<0.001). For all prostate the mean 2%/2mm ?-fail rate was 1.4% with adaptation and 17.3% without adaptation (p<0.001). The difference between the four systems was small with an average 2%/2mm ?-fail rate of <3% for all systems with adaptation for lung and prostate.Conclusions
The investigated systems all accounted for realistic tumor motion accurately and performed to a similar high standard, with real-time adaptation significantly outperforming non-adaptive delivery methods.
SUBMITTER: Colvill E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4854175 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Colvill Emma E Booth Jeremy J Nill Simeon S Fast Martin M Bedford James J Oelfke Uwe U Nakamura Mitsuhiro M Poulsen Per P Worm Esben E Hansen Rune R Ravkilde Thomas T Scherman Rydhög Jonas J Pommer Tobias T Munck Af Rosenschold Per P Lang Stephanie S Guckenberger Matthias M Groh Christian C Herrmann Christian C Verellen Dirk D Poels Kenneth K Wang Lei L Hadsell Michael M Sothmann Thilo T Blanck Oliver O Keall Paul P
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<h4>Purpose</h4>A study of real-time adaptive radiotherapy systems was performed to test the hypothesis that, across delivery systems and institutions, the dosimetric accuracy is improved with adaptive treatments over non-adaptive radiotherapy in the presence of patient-measured tumor motion.<h4>Methods and materials</h4>Ten institutions with robotic(2), gimbaled(2), MLC(4) or couch tracking(2) used common materials including CT and structure sets, motion traces and planning protocols to create ...[more]