51. Performance evaluation of cyberknife tumor tracking treatment
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Al Khawaja, Safa, Marchesi, Vincent, Wolf, Didier, Noel, Alain, D'Hallewin, Marie Ange, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy (CRAN), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre Alexis Vautrin (CAV)
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[SDV.BBM.BP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics ,[SDV.BBM.BP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics - Abstract
International audience; Purpose/Objective: The CyberKnife is a robotized radiotherapy system which allows to treat soft tissues tumors moving according to the respiratory motion, with the possibility of real time tumor tracking by means of its subsystem "Synchrony". This work tries to assess the submillimetric precision of this type of treatment. Materials and method: The collected data of 32 log files of synchrony treatments (for 10 patients: 8 with three fractions, 2 with 4 fractions) were used to simulate the respiratory motion of the tumors in different locations (Liver, Lungs ...), by using a dedicated platform. A ACCURAY plastic cubic phantom, which can receive two radiochromic films in two central orthogonal plans (axial, frontal) was used to evaluate the geometric precision with the E2E ACCURAY software. A Shapiro-Wilk statistical test was used to verify the normality of the geometric precision measurements. Gafchromic EBT films were used to perform a Gamma index analysis with RIT113 software (v5.1) and to calculate the difference between delivered and prescribed dose distributions to the PTV (480 cGy @80% isodose) in the central axial plan. A Perfection V700/V750 Epson Scanner was used to digitize the films. Results: The geometric precision of tumor-tracking treatment with Synchrony, which can also be called the total targeting error and which represents the offset between the centers of the delivered and the planed treatments, is always inferior to the accepted limit of 1.5 mm with a maximum value of 1.42 mm and minimum of 0.25 mm. The Shapiro-Wilk test shows that the measurements follow a normal distribution with µ=0.74 mm and σ2=0.1. The Gamma index results, with a dose tolerance of 3% and DTA =1.5 mm, show an high agreement degree between the prescribed and the delivered dose, with a good matching for the dose profiles in the vertical and the horizontal axis. The number of pixels with a gamma value larger than 1 is always less than 5%. The difference between the delivered and prescribed dose -calculated over the entire PTV- is always inferior to 2%, with maximum of 1.41%, minimum of -0.5% and the mean =0.34% (1 SD=0.74%). Conclusion: The performance analysis of cyberknife tumor tracking treatment with synchrony shows that the system is capable to treat respiratory moving tumors in different body locations, with a high precision for the different complexity pattern of respiratory cycle. 12 September Barcelona poster
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- 2010