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Benefits of Biological Cost Functions
N Demirag1*, (1) Elekta CMS GmbH, Freiburg Im Breisgau, baden wurttemberg
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SU-E-T-54 Sunday 3:00PM - 6:00PM Room: Exhibit HallPurpose:To verify the benefits of the biological cost functions.
Methods: TG166 patients were used for the test case scenarios. Patients were planned using Monaco V5.0 (CMS/Elekta, St.Louis, MO) Monaco has 3 biological and 8 physical CFs. In this study the plans were optimized using 3 different scenarios.
1- Biological CFs only 2-Physical CFs only 3- Combination of Physical&Biological CFs
Monaco has 3 biological CFs. Target EUD used for the targets, derived from the poisson cell kill model, has an α value that controls the cold spots inside the target. α values used in the optimization were 0.5 and 0.8. if cold spots needs to be penalized α value increased. Serial CF: it's called serial to mimic the behaviour of the serial organs, if a high k value like 12 or 14 is used it controls the maximum dose. Serial CF has a k parameter that is used to shape the whole dvh curve. K value ranges between 1-20. k:1 is used to control the mean dose, lower k value controls the mean dose, higher k value controls the higher dose, using 2 serial CFs with different k values controls the whole DVH. Paralel CF controls the percentage of the volume that tolerates higher doses than the reference dose to mimic the behaviour of the paralel organs.
Results: It was possible to achive clinically accepted plans in all 3 scenarios. The benefit of the biological cost functions were to control the mean dose for target and OAR, to shape the DVH curve using one EUD value and one k value simplifies the optimization process. Using the biological CFs alone, it was hard to control the dose at a point.
Conclusion: Biological CFs in Monaco doesn't require the ntcp/tcp values from the labs and useful to shape the whole dvh curve.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: I work as an applications support specialist for Elekta and I am a Ph.D. Student in Istanbul University for radiation therapy physics.
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