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Area of Science:

  • Radiation Oncology
  • Medical Physics
  • Radiotherapy Planning

Background:

  • Accurate dose accumulation is crucial for effective reirradiation.
  • Uncertainty in patient positioning and anatomy can lead to dose inaccuracies.
  • Existing methods may not fully account for these uncertainties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate the RAdiotherapy Dose Accumulation Routine (RADAR) script.
  • To incorporate uncertainty into dose accumulation for reirradiation using a novel algorithm.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the RADAR script for the Eclipse treatment planning system.
  • Introduced a voxel-wise ellipsoid search algorithm to model uncertainty.
  • Demonstrated RADAR on a spine reirradiation case and conducted user evaluations with 11 participants.

Main Results:

  • The ellipsoid search algorithm significantly impacted accumulated spinal cord dose, increasing it when considering adjacent structures.
  • Restricting the search to within the spinal cord mitigated this dose increase.
  • User evaluations showed an average increase of 31.6% in spinal cord dose with uncertainty applied, and a decrease of 16.7% when restricted.

Conclusions:

  • RADAR provides a novel method for directly addressing uncertainty in dose accumulation.
  • The voxel-wise ellipsoid search algorithm enhances the accuracy of reirradiation dose calculations.
  • RADAR supports dose accumulation with and without dose discounts for flexible planning.