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    Feasibility of low-dose 4DCBCT for patient setup and motion measurement

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    Authors
    Lindsay, Josh
    Bryce-Atkinson, Abigail
    Meara, Simon
    Faivre-Finn, Corinne
    Eccles, Cynthia L
    Aznar, Marianne Camille
    van Herk, Marcel
    Affiliation
    The University of Manchester, Division of Cancer Sciences, Manchester
    Issue Date
    2022
    
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    Purpose or Objective 4DCBCT can improve dose delivery in patients with mobile tumours. However, in some populations, there may be concerns over dose burden – e.g. in younger patients with longer life expectancy. Here we explore the possibility of low-dose 4DCBCT by assessing CBCT-CT registration accuracy and tumour motion amplitudes in simulated low-dose images using clinical dose level scans as reference. Materials and Methods 4DCBCT scans of 5 lung SABR patients with tumour motions of 11 -19mm were acquired as part of routine treatment using 2-4 minutes scan time, 120 kV, 650-1300 projection images, 0.32mAs per projection image, CTDI 5.6-11.2mGy. Low-dose images at 30% and 10% of clinical dose were simulated, resulting in the same or lower dose as corresponding 3DCBCT modes. Low-dose scans were simulated by adding non-uniform Gaussian noise to the original projection data, informed by the signal-noise relationship measured in phantom images. Dual-registration from 4DCBCT to average 4DCT was performed at each dose level, first registering the spine based on gray value in a region of interest (ROI) around the vertebrae and then applying 4D tumour registration using ITV+5mm as an ROI. Registrations at each dose were repeated 100 times with added random shifts (SD=3mm in each direction) after spine registration to evaluate consistency given realistic baseline shifts. For the 10% and 30% dose levels, image quality was visually evaluated and relative accuracy compared to reference images looking at 1) vector differences between couch shifts, 2) estimated motion amplitude and 3) registration failure rate (error > 5mm). Mean couch and motion vectors at clinical dose were taken as the gold standard for these comparisons. Results Visual image quality at 30% dose was comparable to full dose, but 10% dose images were notably noisier (Fig 1). Automatic registration of each low-dose image remained consistent with that of the standard-dose. The median, mean, and SD of magnitude of couch vector differences were 0.10mm, 0.14mm, and 0.17mm at clinical dose; 0.49mm, 0.51mm, and 0.13mm at 30% dose; and 0.69mm, 0.62mm, and 0.28mm at 10% dose (Fig 2a). The magnitude difference in measurement of the tumour motion vector gave values of 0.29mm, 0.37mm, 0.35mm for clinical; 0.47mm, 0.59mm, and 0.49mm at 30% dose; and 0.81mm, 1.10mm, and 0.86mm at 10% dose (Fig 2b). The registration failure rate at any dose level was below 2%. Low-dose 4DCBCT has a minimal effect on automatic registration accuracy and tumour motion estimates at 30% and 10% of clinically used doses. Decreasing the dose to 30% did not have a considerable detrimental effect on image quality, since the impact of streak image artefacts exceed that of image noise at this dose level. This work highlights the feasibility of reduced-dose 4DCBCT, which could be relevant for patients for whom 4DCBCT is avoided due dose concerns. We show that using the same or lower dose than in clinical 3D modes is acceptable.
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    Lindsay J, Bryce-Atkinson A, Meara S, Faivre-Finn C, Eccles C, Aznar M, et al. Feasibility of low-dose 4DCBCT for patient setup and motion measurement. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2022 May;170:S1422-S5. PubMed PMID: WOS:000806779900451.
    Journal
    Radiotherapy and Oncology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10541/625493
    Type
    Meetings and Proceedings
    Language
    en
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