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Published on: March 11, 2021
Define dose field to assess the modulation complexity of intensity-modulated radiation therapy
Ning Luo1, Zhenyu Wang1, Bin Ouyang1
1The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, Guangdong Province, PR China.
Purpose:
Introduce a new concept of dose field to assess the modulation complexity (MC) of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).
Methods:
A total of 91 IMRT plans for different diseases were retrospectively retrieved randomly from treatment database. The dose field of plans were calculated and feature values such as force magnitude and diversity were defined and extracted. Correlation analysis between these feature values and execution cost, delivery accuracy of plans was performed, to verify the validity of dose field in characterizing the MC.
Results:
The feature values of dose field in different disease own significant differences (p < 0.001). For correlation analysis, number of control point (CP) and cumulative perimeter of CP have the highest correlation with angle entropy (0.815 and 0.848 respectively), while the correlation between number of monitor units(MU), cumulative area of CP and force, force entropy is higher than others (0.797-0.909). However, complexity of CP shape is almost irrelevant to all the dose field features. The gamma passing rate and the dose field features shows a weak negative correlation trend.
Conclusions:
Dose field can be used as a tool to assess the MC of IMRT.
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