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  • Radiotherapy Oncology
  • Medical Imaging

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  • Deformable image registration (DIR) is crucial for interfractional dose accumulation in radiotherapy.
  • Robust evaluation workflows are needed to ensure the clinical reliability of DIR-based dose warping.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate a validation workflow for dose warping using a commercial DIR algorithm.
  • To quantify the accuracy of a commercial DIR algorithm for dose warping in clinically realistic scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of 12 head and neck patient datasets with artificially generated anatomical changes.
  • Spatial registration accuracy assessed using conformity index and mean distance to conformity (MDC).
  • Dosimetric evaluation by comparing dose-volume histograms of calculated and warped dose distributions.

Main Results:

  • Accurate spatial registration with MDC ranging from 1-2 voxels (1.2-2.4 mm).
  • Low dosimetric discrepancies (0.02 ± 0.03 Gy per fraction) with no statistical significance.
  • Demonstrated reliability of CT-to-CT DIR-based dose warping for a commercial algorithm.

Conclusions:

  • The study successfully demonstrated a reliable workflow for validating dose warping following DIR.
  • The findings support the clinical implementation of DIR-based dose warping for accurate dose accumulation in radiotherapy.
  • This workflow can help quantify uncertainties in dose accumulation for clinical decision-making.