title: Dosimetric effect due to the motion during deep inspiration breath hold for left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy.
abstract: Deep inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) radiotherapy for left-sided breast cancer can reduce cardiac exposure and internal motion. We modified our in-house treatment planning system (TPS) to retrospectively analyze breath-hold motion log files to calculate the dosimetric effect of the motion during breath hold. Thirty left-sided supine DIBH breast patients treated using AlignRT were studied. Breath-hold motion was recorded — three translational and three rotational displacements of the treatment surface — the Real Time Deltas (RTD). The corresponding delivered dose was estimated using the beam-on portions of the RTDs. Each motion was used to calculate dose, and the final estimated dose was the equally weighted average of the multiple resultant doses. Ten of thirty patients had internal mammary nodes (IMN) purposefully included in the tangential fields, and we evaluated the percentage of IMN covered by 40 Gy. The planned and delivered heart mean dose, lungs V20 (volume of the lungs receiving > 20 Gy), percentage of IMN covered by 40 Gy, and IMN mean dose were compared. The averaged mean and standard deviation of the beam-on portions of the absolute RTDs were 0.81 ± 1.29 mm, 0.68 ± 0.85mm, 0.76 ± 0.85 mm, 0.96° ± 0.49°, 0.93° ± 0.43°, and 1.03° ± 0.50°, for vertical, longitudinal, lateral, yaw, roll, and pitch, respectively. The averaged planned and delivered mean heart dose were 99 and 101 cGy. Lungs V20 were 6.59% and 6.74%. IMN 40 Gy coverage was 83% and 77%, and mean IMN dose was 4642 and 4518 cGy. The averaged mean motion during DIBH was smaller than 1 mm and 1°, which reflects the relative reproducibility of the patient breath hold. On average, the mean heart dose and lungs V20 were reasonably close to what have been planned. IMN 40 Gy coverage might be modestly reduced for certain cases.
authors.affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. xiaoli.tang@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Xiaoli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cullip
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dooley
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zagar
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Sha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Xiaofeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marks
mesh_terms: D062485:Breath Holding; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D058958:Organs at Risk; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D050397:Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated / Q000379:methods; D012119:Respiration; D055425:Respiratory-Gated Imaging Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D000069584:Unilateral Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy*