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Impact of Different Patient Setup Strategies in Adaptive Radiation Therapy with Simultaneous Integrated Volume-Adapted Boost of NSCLC
S Balik1*, E Weiss2 , N Dogan3 , m fatyga4 , W Sleeman5 , Y Wu6 , G Hugo7 , (1) Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, (2) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, (3) University of Miami, Miami, FL, (4) Mayo Clinic, AZ, Phoenix, AZ, (5) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, (6) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, (7) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Presentations
SU-F-BRF-7 Sunday 4:00PM - 6:00PM Room: Ballroom FPurpose:
To evaluate the potential impact of several setup error correction strategies on a proposed image-guided adaptive radiotherapy strategy for locally advanced lung cancer.
Methods:
Daily 4D cone-beam CT and weekly 4D fan-beam CT images were acquired from 9 lung cancer patients undergoing concurrent chemoradiation therapy. Initial planning CT was deformably registered to daily CBCT images to generate synthetic treatment courses. An adaptive radiation therapy course was simulated using the weekly CT images with replanning twice and a hypofractionated, simultaneous integrated boost to a total dose of 66 Gy to the original PTV and either a 66 Gy (no boost) or 82 Gy (boost) dose to the boost PTV (ITV + 3mm) in 33 fractions with IMRT or VMAT. Lymph nodes (LN) were not boosted (prescribed to 66 Gy in both plans). Synthetic images were rigidly, bony (BN) or tumor and carina (TC), registered to the corresponding plan CT, dose was computed on these from adaptive replans (PLAN) and deformably accumulated back to the original planning CT. Cumulative D98% of CTV of PT (ITV for 82Gy) and LN, and normal tissue dose changes were analyzed.
Results:
Two patients were removed from the study due to large registration errors. For the remaining 7 patients, D98% for CTV-PT (ITV-PT for 82 Gy) and CTV-LN was within 1 Gy of PLAN for both 66 Gy and 82 Gy plans with both setup techniques. Overall, TC based setup provided better results, especially for LN coverage (p = 0.1 for 66Gy plan and p = 0.2 for 82 Gy plan, comparison of BN and TC), though not significant. Normal tissue dose constraints violated for some patients if constraint was barely achieved in PLAN.
Conclusion:
The hypofractionated adaptive strategy appears to be deliverable with soft tissue alignment for the evaluated margins and planning parameters.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: Research was supported by NIH P01CA116602
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