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A Novel Method for Registration of Mid-Treatment PET/CT Images Under Conditions of Tumor Regression for Patients with Locally Advanced Lung Cancers
Hoda Sharifi1,2*, Hong Zhang3 , Jian-Yyue Jin3 , Feng-Ming Kong3 , Indrin J Chetty1 , Hualiang Zhong1 , (1)Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan,(2) Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, (3)Department of Radiation Oncology, GRU Cancer Center, Augusta GA, U.S.A
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TU-AB-202-7 (Tuesday, August 2, 2016) 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM Room: 202
Purpose:In PET-guided adaptive radiotherapy (RT), changes in the metabolic activity at individual voxels cannot be derived until the during-treatment CT images are appropriately registered to pre-treatment CT images. However, deformable image registration (DIR) usually does not preserve tumor volume. This may induce errors when comparing to the target. The aim of this study was to develop a DIR-integrated mechanical modeling technique to track radiation-induced metabolic changes on PET images.
Methods:Three patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were treated with adaptive radiotherapy under RTOG 1106. Two PET/CT image sets were acquired 2 weeks before RT and 18 fractions after the start of treatment. DIR was performed to register the during-RT CT to the pre-RT CT using a B-spline algorithm and the resultant displacements in the region of tumor were remodeled using a hybrid finite element method (FEM). Gross tumor volume (GTV) was delineated on the during-RT PET/CT image sets and deformed using the 3D deformation vector fields generated by the CT-based registrations. Metabolic tumor volume (MTV) was calculated using the pre- and during–RT image set. The quality of the PET mapping was evaluated based on the constancy of the mapped MTV and landmark comparison.
Results:The B-spline-based registrations changed MTVs by 7.3%, 4.6% and -5.9% for the 3 patients and the correspondent changes for the hybrid FEM method -2.9%, 1% and 6.3%, respectively. Landmark comparisons were used to evaluate the Rigid, B-Spline, and hybrid FEM registrations with the mean errors of 10.1 ± 1.6 mm, 4.4 ± 0.4 mm, and 3.6 ± 0.4 mm for three patients. The hybrid FEM method outperforms the B-Spline-only registration for patients with tumor regression
Conclusion:The hybrid FEM modeling technique improves the B-Spline registrations in tumor regions. This technique may help compare metabolic activities between two PET/CT images with regressing tumors.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the National Institutes of Health Grant
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