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Voluntary Breath-hold Technique for Reducing Heart Dose in Left Breast Radiotherapy
Published on: July 3, 2014
Analysis of Planning Risk Volume for Heart during Radiotherapy Delivery with Breath-Hold Technique for Carcinoma of
Radhika Jain1,2, Rose Kamal3, Manoj K Semwal4
1Department of Physics, Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Purpose:
The purpose of the study was to analyze and estimate planning risk volume (PRV) margin for heart in deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH)-based left breast radiotherapy.
Materials And Methods:
Fifty left-sided cancer breast cases treated with volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy were included in this retrospective study. Treatment plans were created using the Eclipse treatment planning system from Varian Medical System. The treatment was delivered on TrueBeam linear accelerator (Varian). Onboard cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images were generated and image registration between the planning computed tomography images and the CBCT images was performed before treatment delivery. The registration provided the shifts (errors) values in 6° of freedom, namely three translational and three rotational. From the shift values, the systematic and random errors were estimated which were used to estimate PRV margin for the heart after incorporating the rotational errors with the translational errors.
Results:
The systematic error values after incorporating rotational errors with translational errors were 0.13 cm (lateral) and 0.11 cm (cranio caudal [CC] and anterioposterior each), and the random error values were 0.16 cm (lateral) and 0.13 cm (CC and anterioposterior each). Based on these values, the PRV margins for the heart in all three directions were 0.24 cm (lateral), 0.20 cm (CC), and 0.19 cm (anterioposterior).
Conclusion:
As per our institutional practice, the 2 mm value for PRV margin for the heart in all the three directions would suffice for appropriate sparing of the heart during DIBH-based radiation therapy.
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