Abstract
Online adaptive radiotherapy with Ethos is based on the anatomy determined from daily cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images. Dose optimization and computation are performed on the density map of a synthetic CT (sCT), a deformable registration of the initial planning CT (pCT) onto the current CBCT. Large density changes as present in the lung region are challenging the system. Treatment plans for Ethos were created and delivered for 1, 2, and 3cm diameter lung lesions in an anthropomorphic phantom, combining different insets in the pCT and during adaptive and non-adaptive treatment sessions. Primary and secondary dose calculations as well as back-projected dose from portal images were evaluated. Density changes due to changed insets were not considered in the sCTs. This resulted in errors in the dose; for example, -15.9% of the mean dose for a plan when changing from a 3cm inset in the pCT to 1cm at the time of treatment. Secondary dose calculation is based on the sCT and could therefore not reveal these dose errors. However, dose calculation on the CBCT, either as a recalculation in the treatment planning system or as pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) before the treatment, indicated the differences. EPID in-vivo QA also reported discrepancies between calculated and delivered dose distributions. An incorrect density distribution in the sCT has an impact on the dose calculation accuracy in the adaptive treatment workflow with the Ethos system. Additional quality checks of the sCT can detect such errors.
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