Automatic calculation of three-dimensional margins around treatment volumes in radiotherapy planning.

Abstract:

:Following the publication of ICRU Report 50, the concepts of GTV (gross tumour volume). CTV (clinical target volume) and PTV (planning target volume) are being used in radiotherapy planning with increasing frequency. In 3D planning, the GTV (or CTV) is normally outlined by the clinician in CT or MRI slices. The PTV is determined by adding margins to these volumes. Since manual drawing of an accurate 3D margin in a set of 2D slices is extremely time consuming, software has been developed to automate this step in the planning. The target volume is represented in a 3D matrix grid with voxel values one inside and zero outside the target volume. It is expanded by centering an ellipsoid at every matrix element within the volume. The shape of the ellipsoid reflects the size of the margins in the three main orthogonal directions. Finally, the PTV contours are determined from the 50% iso-value lines of the expanded volume. The software tool has been in clinical use since the end of 1994 and has mostly been applied to the planning of prostate irradiations. The accuracy is better than can be achieved manually and the workload has been reduced considerably (from 4 h manually to approximately 1 min automatically).

journal_name

Phys Med Biol

authors

Stroom JC,Storchi PR

doi

10.1088/0031-9155/42/4/011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-04-01 00:00:00

pages

745-55

issue

4

eissn

0031-9155

issn

1361-6560

journal_volume

42

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