Evaluation of dose recalculation vs dose deformation in a commercial platform for deformable image registration with a computational phantom

Journal Article · Thu Mar 15 04:00:00 EDT 2018 · Medical Dosimetry

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MEDDOS.2017.08.004· OSTI ID:22824182

Fusella, Marco ^[1]; Giglioli, Francesca R. ^[2]; Fiandra, Christian; Ragona, Riccardo ^[3]

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1. Medical Physics Department, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, Padua (Italy)
2. Medical Physics Department, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin (Italy)
3. Department of Oncology, University of Torino, Turin (Italy)

Deformable image registration (DIR) is an important tool for mapping both dose and contours of a new set of planning images when recurrent, that is, adaptive radiotherapy, or further treatment, that is, re-treatment, is required. The aim of this study was to evaluate the need for plan recalculation in deformed anatomies and to develop a reliable workflow for validating the DIR algorithm to be applied to dose warping such as dose accumulation (DA) for adaptive radiation therapy, and dose summation (DS) in the case of re-treatment. A set of 3 computational phantoms was developed to validate the application of B-Spline-based registrations for dose mapping among the various computed tomography image data sets. Two different versions were defined for each phantom to simulate clinical needs: adaptive radiotherapy and re-treatment; a DIR was performed to obtain a displacement vector field (DVF) for dose applications. Comparison of calculated and deformed doses was carried out by means of known markers inside the virtual phantoms. The differences were evaluated using a 3% dose index as acceptance criteria. A paired Wilcoxon signed-rank test was carried out to test the statistical significance of differences within the markers. Significant differences were only observed for the deformed dose in the DA test; no significant differences were observed for recalculated dose values in the DA and DS tests. The dose index is in accordance with these results. The warping dose process obtained by registering various sets of images was validated; a recalculation approach seems to be more accurate for DA purposes and image-guided adaptive radiation therapy (IGART) applications.

• OSTI ID: 22824182
• Journal Information: Medical Dosimetry, Journal Name: Medical Dosimetry Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 43; ISSN 0958-3947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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