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Taku Inaniwa¹, Takuji Furukawa, Takehiro Tomitani

¹Medical Physics Research Group, Research Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan. taku@nirs.go.jp

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This study introduces an optimization method to mitigate extra dose in pencil beam scanning radiotherapy. The new approach significantly reduces treatment time while maintaining dose homogeneity, improving efficiency in radiation therapy.

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Medical Physics
Radiation Oncology
Radiotherapy Physics

Background:

Pencil beam scanning (PBS) in 3D radiotherapy delivers an unavoidable extra dose due to system reaction times.
This extra dose distorts dose distribution and worsens target uniformity, especially at higher beam intensities used to shorten treatment times.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate an optimization method that integrates the extra dose into the weighting matrix optimization process.
To reduce treatment time in PBS by accounting for and mitigating the impact of the extra dose.

Main Methods:

Developed an optimization method to incorporate the extra dose into the weighting matrix calculation.
Validated the method using computer simulations for both spot scanning and raster scanning.
Confirmed effectiveness through experimental irradiation for spot scanning.

Main Results:

The optimization method effectively accounts for the extra dose in PBS.
Treatment time was reduced to approximately one-sixth compared to methods not considering the extra dose.
Achieved equivalent dose homogeneity in the target volume.

Conclusions:

The proposed optimization method successfully addresses extra dose issues in PBS.
It enables significant reduction in treatment time without compromising dose distribution quality.
This method is applicable to both spot and raster scanning techniques in radiotherapy.