Developing and evaluating stereotactic lung RT trails: What we should know about the influence of inhomogeneity corrections on dose
Purpose: To investigate the influence of inhomogeneity corrections on stereotactic treatment plans for non-small cell lung cancer and determine the dose delivered to the PTV and OARs.Methods and Materials: For 26 patients with stage-I NSCLC treatment plans were optimized with unit density (UD), an equivalent pathlength algorithm (EPL), and a collapsed-cone (CC) algorithm, prescribing 60 Gy to the PTV. After optimization the first two plans were recalculated with the more accurate CC algorithm.
Dose parameters were compared for the three different optimized plans. Dose to the target and OARs was evaluated for the recalculated plans and compared with the planned values.
Results: For the CC algorithm dose constraints for the ratio of the 50% isodose volume and the PTV, and the V20Gy are harder to fulfill.
After recalculation of the UD and EPL plans large variations in the dose to the PTV were observed. For the unit density plans, the dose to the PTV varied from 42.1 to 63.4 Gy for individual patients.
The EPL plans all overestimated the PTV dose (average 48.0 Gy). For the lungs, the recalculated V20Gy was highly correlated to the planned value, and was 12% higher for the UD plans (R2=0.99), and 15% lower for the EPL plans (R2=0.96).
Conclusions: Inhomogeneity corrections have a large influence on the dose delivered to the PTV and OARs for SBRT of lung tumors.
A simple rescaling of the dose to the PTV is not possible, implicating that accurate dose calculations are necessary for these treatment plans.
Author: Danny Schuring and Coen W Hurkmans
Credits/Source: Radiation Oncology 2008, 3:21
Published on: 2008-07-28
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