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Dynamic Lung Tumor Tracking for Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiation Therapy
Published on: June 7, 2015
Internal target volume reproducibility and dose coverage for lung stereotactic body radiotherapy using spine-based
Thomas Opsommer1, Mylène Messéant1,2, Florence Le Tinier3
1Medical Physics, Oscar Lambret Comprehensive Cancer Center, Lille France.
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Free-breathing spine-based positioning/tracking in lung stereotactic body radiotherapy is required when direct tumor positioning is not possible. Respiratory baseline, motion and target position reproducibility interact and remain uncertainty sources. This results in conflicting margins but also clinical control. The internal target volume geometric reproducibility, spine distance dependency and four-dimensional per-fraction gross tumor volume (GTV) dose was analyzed in 340 fractions. While the target would leave a projected isotropic 5 mm planned target volume in 11% of fractions, ΔD98%(4D-GTV) > 10% occurred in 2.6% of fractions. Risk mitigation is suggested through additional off-line 4DCT, surface guidance, fractionation and increased inferior-superior and posterior-anterior margins.
