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ACTA ONCOLOGICA
Volume 45, Issue 7, Pages 897-906Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1080/02841860600904839
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Cone-beam CT ( CB-CT) based image-guidance was evaluated for extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy of intrapulmonary tumors. A total of 21 patients (25 lesions: prim. NSCLC n = 6; pulmonary metastases n = 19) were treated with stereotactic radiotherapy (1 to 8 fractions). Prior to every fraction a CB-CT was acquired in treatment position, errors between planned and actual tumor position were measured and corrected. Intra- and inter-observer variability of manual evaluation of tumor position error was investigated and this manual method was compared with automatic image registration. Based on CB-CTs from 66 fractions the discrepancy (3-D vector) between planned and actual tumor position was 7.7 mm +/- 1.3 mm. Tumor position error relative to the bony anatomy was 5.3 mm +/- 1.2 mm, the correlation between bony anatomy and tumor position was poor. Intra- observer and inter-observer variability of manual evaluation of tumor position error was 0.9 mm +/- 0.8 mm and 2.3 mm +/- 1.1 mm, respectively. Automatic image registration showed highly reproducible results (< 1 mm). However, compared with manual registration a systematic error was found in direction of predominant tumor breathing motion (2.5 mm vs 1.4 mm). Image-guidance using CB-CT was validated for high precision radiotherapy of intrapulmonary tumors. It was shown that both the planning reference and the verification image study have to consider tumor breathing motion.
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