Journal
JOURNAL OF APPLIED CLINICAL MEDICAL PHYSICS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 205-213Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/acm2.12368
Keywords
breast cancer; deep-inspiration breath-hold; setup errors; surface imaging
Funding
- University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center [P30 CA014599]
- University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division Summer Research Fund
- National Institute on Aging [4T35AG029795-10]
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Purpose: We calculated setup margins for whole breast radiotherapy during voluntary deep-inspiration breath-hold (vDIBH) using real-time surface imaging (SI). Methods and Materials: Patients (n = 58) with a 27-to-31 split between right-and left-sided cancers were analyzed. Treatment beams were gated using AlignRT by registering the whole breast region-of-interest to the surface generated from the simulation CT scan. AlignRT recorded (three-dimensional) 3D displacements and the beam-on-state every 0.3 s. Means and standard deviations of the displacements during vDIBH for each fraction were used to calculate setup margins. Intra-DIBH stability and the intrafraction reproducibility were estimated from the medians of the 5th to 95th percentile range of the translations in each breath-hold and fraction, respectively. Results: A total of 7269 breath-holds were detected over 1305 fractions in which a median dose of 200 cGy was delivered. Each fraction was monitored for 5.95 +/- 2.44 min. Calculated setup margins were 4.8 mm (A/P), 4.9 mm (S/I), and 6.4 mm (L/R). The intra-DIBH stability and the intrafraction reproducibility were <= 0.7 mm and <= 2.2 mm, respectively. The isotropic margin according to SI (9.2 mm) was comparable to other institutions' calculations that relied on x-ray imaging and/or spirometry for patients with left-sided cancer (9.8-11.0 mm). Likewise, intra-DIBH variability and intrafraction reproducibility of breast surface measured with SI agreed with spirometry-based positioning to within 1.2 and 0.36 mm, respectively. Conclusions: We demonstrated that intra-DIBH variability, intrafraction reproducibility, and setup margins are similar to those reported by peer studies who utilized spirometry-based positioning.
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