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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS
卷 77, 期 1, 页码 277-284出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.001
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SBRT lung; Monte Carlo calculation; CyberKnife
Purpose: To compare dose distributions calculated using the Monte Carlo algorithm (MC) and Ray-Trace algorithm (effective path length method, EPL) for CyberKnife treatments of lung tumors. Materials and Methods: An acceptable treatment plan is created using Multiplan 2.1 and MC dose calculation. Dose is prescribed to the isodose line encompassing 95% of the planning target volume (PTV) and this is the plan clinically delivered. For comparison, the Ray-Trace algorithm with heterogeneity correction (EPL) is used to recalculate the dose distribution for this plan using the same beams, beam directions, and monitor units (MUs). Results: The maximum doses calculated by the EPL to target PTV are uniformly larger than the MC plans by up to a factor of 1.63. Up to a factor of four larger maximum dose differences are observed for the critical structures in the chest. More beams traversing larger distances through low density lung are associated with larger differences, consistent with the fact that the EPL overestimates doses in low-density structures and this effect is more pronounced as collimator size decreases. Conclusions: We establish that changing the treatment plan calculation algorithm from EPL to MC can produce large differences in target and critical organs' dose coverage. The observed discrepancies are larger for plans using smaller collimator sizes and have strong dependency on the anatomical relationship of target-critical structures. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc.
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