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Binbin Wu1, Dalong Pang1, Siyuan Lei1
1Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, USA.
Background And Purpose:
This study is to determine if the overlap-volume histogram (OVH)-driven planning methodology can be adapted to robotic SBRT (CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System) to further minimize the bladder and rectal doses achieved in plans manually-created by clinical planners.
Methods And Materials:
A database containing clinically-delivered, robotic SBRT plans (7.25 Gy/fraction in 36.25 Gy) of 425 patients with localized prostate cancer was used as a cohort to establish an organ's distance-to-dose model. The OVH-driven planning methodology was refined by adding the PTV volume factor to counter the target's dose fall-off effect and incorporated into Multiplan to automate SBRT planning. For validation, automated plans (APs) for 12 new patients were generated, and their achieved dose/volume values were compared to the corresponding manually-created, clinically-delivered plans (CPs). A two-sided, Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used for statistical comparison with a significance level of p<0.05.
Results:
PTV's V(36.25 Gy) was comparable: 95.6% in CPs comparing to 95.1% in APs (p=0.2). On average, the refined approach lowered V(18.12 Gy) to the bladder and rectum by 8.2% (p<0.05) and 6.4% (p=0.14). A physician confirmed APs were clinically acceptable.
Conclusions:
The improvements in APs could further reduce toxicities observed in SBRT for organ-confined prostate cancer.
