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  • Medical Physics
  • Radiotherapy Physics
  • Computational Dosimetry

Background:

  • Accurate dose calculation is crucial in radiotherapy, especially with advancements in image-guided and adaptive techniques.
  • Deforming anatomy in patients during treatment necessitates advanced methods for precise dose mapping.
  • Existing dose interpolation methods (DIM) show significant inaccuracies when dealing with anatomical changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate a novel energy transfer method (ETM) for four-dimensional (4D) Monte Carlo dose calculations.
  • To address the challenge of dose mapping in the presence of deforming anatomy.
  • To compare the accuracy and efficiency of ETM against conventional dose interpolation methods.

Main Methods:

  • The energy transfer method (ETM) separates particle transport and energy deposition geometries.
  • Particle transport is performed in the source image's coordinate system.
  • Energy deposition is scored in a reference image using deformable image registration, calculating dose as energy deposited per unit mass.

Main Results:

  • ETM demonstrated exact agreement with analytical solutions for merged voxels in deforming phantoms.
  • The conventional dose interpolation method (DIM) exhibited dose discrepancies, averaging 1.1% and reaching up to 24.9% in the penumbra.
  • DIM errors persisted even with increased voxel subdivision.

Conclusions:

  • The energy transfer method (ETM) provides accurate dose calculations for deforming anatomy in 4D Monte Carlo simulations.
  • ETM is computationally efficient and a valuable tool for 4D dose summation.
  • ETM can serve as a benchmark for evaluating other 4D dose calculation algorithms.