title: Design of a compensating bolus by use of exhalation CT data for covering residual motion in respiratory-gated charged-particle lung therapy: four-dimensional carbon beam dose calculation.
abstract: We developed an algorithm which we used to design a compensating bolus by using respiratory-gated CT data for respiratory-gated carbon beam lung therapy and evaluated it by calculating dose distributions as a function of time. Four-dimensional CT (4DCT) images were obtained for seven lung cancer patients under free breathing conditions. The internal target volume (ITV) was calculated by maximum intensity projection processing which use of three types of gross tumor volumes (GTVs): at peak exhalation and with a 5 mm shift of the GTV to both superior and inferior sides. Then a compensating bolus was designed which use of the ITV and applied to 4DCT data at the gating window (around exhalation phase). The carbon beam distribution was calculated by a pencil-beam algorithm as a function of time. The compensating bolus provides a sufficient prescribed dose to the target in the gating window and minimizes any excessive dose to the normal tissues. The metric of dosimetric assessment metrics of D95 in all patients is greater than 96% of the prescribed dose in the gating window. Our results will be beneficial for improving the accuracy of charged-particle radiotherapy for hospitals where 4DCT cannot be used.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Charged Particle Therapy, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan. shinshin@nirs.go.jp
authors.forename: Shinichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asakura
authors.forename: Shuhei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Komatsu
authors.forename: Tomoyasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yashiro
authors.forename: Motoki
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authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kandatsu
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baba
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Endo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000465:Algorithms; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D045853:Exhalation / Q000502:physiology*; D056973:Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009038:Motion; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012119:Respiration; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon
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