Abstract
We measured interfractional liver positional motion in liver stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) with exhaled breath holding (BH) based on kilovoltage (kV) cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images. We collected 528 pre-treatment kV-CBCT images from 132 patients who underwent liver SBRT under exhaled BH using the Abches system, a non-electronic contact-based respiratory monitoring device, and analyzed them to investigate interfractional liver positional motion. Planning computed tomography (CT) scans were obtained using the Abches system when the patients were under exhaled BH. Translational 3-degree-of-freedom (DOF) soft-tissue-based image registration was performed using the kV-CBCT images under exhaled BH after 6-DOF vertebral bone image registration. Interfractional liver positional motions in the left-right (LR), anteroposterior (AP), and craniocaudal (CC) directions were defined based on the differences in the position of the liver relative to the vertebral bones. For all fractions, the absolute mean±standard deviation for the interfractional liver positional motion in the LR, AP, and CC directions was 0.7±1.0 mm, 1.0±1.5 mm, and 2.8±3.1 mm, respectively. The liver interfractional systematic/random positional motions in the LR, AP, and CC directions were 0.9/1.2 mm, 1.4/1.8 mm, and 2.9/3.9 mm, respectively. For all fractions, 100.0%, 98.3%, and 86.9% of the interfractional liver positional motions in the LR, AP, and CC directions, respectively, were less than 5 mm. CBCT-guided online correction should be used to correct interfractional liver positions errors present in liver SBRT with exhaled BH.
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