A Prospective Cohort Study of Gated Stereotactic Liver Radiation Therapy Using Continuous Internal Electromagnetic Motion Monitoring.

Forfattere Worm ES, Høyer M, Hansen R, Larsen LP, Weber B, Grau C, Poulsen PR.

Kilde Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Jun 1;101(2):366-375 Publiceringsdato 13 feb 2018

Abstrakt

PURPOSE

Intrafraction motion can compromise the treatment accuracy in liver stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Respiratory gating can improve treatment delivery; however, gating based on external motion surrogates is inaccurate. The present study reports the use of Calypso-based internal electromagnetic motion monitoring for gated liver SBRT.

RESULTS

No severe side effects were observed in relation to transponder implantation. All 45 treatment fractions were successfully guided using the Calypso system. The mean number of couch corrections during each gated fraction was 2.8 (range 0-7). The mean duty cycle during gated treatment was 62.5% (range 29.1%-84.9%). Without gating, the mean 3-dimensional geometric error during a fraction would have been 5.4 mm (range 2.7-12.1). Gating reduced this error to 2.0 mm (range 1.2-3.0). The patient mean reduction in minimum dose to 95% of the CTV relative to the planned dose was 6.0 percentage points (range 0.7-22.0) without gating and 0.8 percentage point (range 0.2-2.0) with gating.

CONCLUSIONS

Gating using internal motion monitoring was successfully applied for liver SBRT. It markedly improved the geometric and dosimetric accuracy compared with nongated standard treatment.