Article
Assessment of Intrafraction Breathing Motion on Left Anterior Descending Artery Dose During Left-Sided Breast Radiation Therapy.
International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics
(2016)
Abstract
PURPOSE:
To use 4-dimensional computed tomography (4D-CT) imaging to predict the level of uncertainty in cardiac dose estimates of the left anterior descending artery that arises due to breathing motion during radiation therapy for left-sided breast cancer.
METHODS AND MATERIALS:
The fast helical CT (FH-CT) and 4D-CT of 30 left-sided breast cancer patients were retrospectively analyzed. Treatment plans were created on the FH-CT. The original treatment plan was then superimposed onto all 10 phases of the 4D-CT to quantify the dosimetric impact of respiratory motion through 4D dose accumulation (4D-dose). Dose-volume histograms for the heart, left ventricle (LV), and left anterior descending (LAD) artery obtained from the FH-CT were compared with those obtained from the 4D-dose.
RESULTS:
The 95% confidence interval of 4D-dose and FH-CT differences in mean dose estimates for the heart, LV, and LAD were ±0.5 Gy, ±1.0 Gy, and ±8.7 Gy, respectively.
CONCLUSION:
Fast helical CT is a good approximation for doses to the heart and LV; however, dose estimates for the LAD are susceptible to uncertainties that arise due to intrafraction breathing motion that cannot be ascertained without the additional information obtained from 4D-CT and dose accumulation. For future clinical studies, we suggest the use of 4D-CT-derived dose-volume histograms for estimating the dose to the LAD.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer July 1, 2016
DOI
doi: 10.1016
Citation Information
Omar El-Sherif, Edward Yu, Ilma Xhaferllari and Stewart Gaede. "Assessment of Intrafraction Breathing Motion on Left Anterior Descending Artery Dose During Left-Sided Breast Radiation Therapy." International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics Vol. 95 Iss. 3 (2016) p. 1075 - 1082 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/edwardyu/102/