Abstract：
:Intra-fraction organ motion during the dynamic delivery of IMRT treatment of lung tumors may cause unexpected hot/cold spots even within the target volume, due to the interplay effect between tumor motion and multi-leaf collimator (MLC) leaf motion. In the past, this has been investigated through theoretical analysis, computer simulation, and experimental measurement using an ionization chamber dosimeter. In the work presented here, the interplay effect was studied experimentally in 2D, using Kodak EDR2 films. A five-field lung IMRT plan was delivered to a solid water phantom with embedded film. The phantom was placed on a motor-driven platform with a sinusoidal motion to simulate the respiration induced tumor motion. The delivery of each field began at one of eight equally spaced initial breathing phases. The dose distribution for each treatment fraction was estimated by combining the dose distributions for all fields with randomly sampled initial breathing phases. The dose variation caused by the interplay effect was estimated by looking at the dose values from 1000 trials of 30 fractions. It was found that, on a day-to-day basis, the standard deviation of the dose to a given pixel in the high dose region could be as high as 2-3% due to the motion interplay effect. After thirty fractions, the standard deviation in the dose to each pixel is reduced to about 0.3-0.5%. However, compared to the static delivery, the dose distribution from a thirty-fraction case in the presence of motion shows some under-dosing in the region of interest. Our results indicate that the interplay effect is of no significant consequence to tumor dose coverage in lung IMRT delivery over the entire course of a thirty-fraction treatment.
journal_name
J Appl Clin Med Physjournal_title
Journal of applied clinical medical physicsauthors
Berbeco RI,Pope CJ,Jiang SBdoi
10.1120/jacmp.v7i4.2222subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-11-28 00:00:00pages
33-42issue
4issn
1526-9914journal_volume
7pub_type
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