期刊
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
卷 143, 期 -, 页码 1-11出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2019.08.023
关键词
Image registration; Brachytherapy; Dose accumulation
资金
- BRAchytherapy PHYsics Quality Assurance System (BRAPHYQS) working group of the GEC-ESTRO committee
This review provides an overview of the current status of image registration for image guided gynaecological brachytherapy including combination with external beam radiotherapy. Contour propagation between individual fractions and dose accumulation can be useful for cervix cancer radiotherapy. Contour mapping and applicator reconstruction with rigid registration based on the applicator geometry provide good accuracy. However, deformable image registration is particularly challenging in the pelvic region, due to the large and complex deformations caused by tumor shrinkage, bladder and rectum filling, insertion of a brachytherapy applicator and presence of packing material. This causes substantial limitations and uncertainties when using it in the clinical workflow so that the current generation of deformable image registration algorithms is not yet robust enough to handle complexities involving the dose accumulation of external beam and brachytherapy. The direct addition of doses provides a reasonable estimate of the total absorbed dose. However, in case of significant dose gradients from external beam boosts or midline-shielding adding dose contributions from the different radiotherapy modalities and fractions remains subject to large uncertainties. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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