Abstract
PurposeTo investigate scanned-beam proton dose distribution reproducibility in the lung under high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV). Materials and methodsFor 11 patients (12 lesions), treated with single-fraction photon stereotactic radiosurgery under HFJV, scanned-beam proton plans were prepared with the TRiP98 treatment planning system using 2, 3–4 and 5–7 beams. The planning objective was to deliver at least 95% of the prescription of 33Gy (RBE) to 98% of the PTV. Plans were subsequently recomputed on localization CT scans. Additionally, for selected cases, the effects of range uncertainties were investigated. ResultsMedian GTV V98% was 98.7% in the original 2-field plans and 93.7% in their recomputation (p=0.039). The respective values were 99.0% and 98.0% (p=0.039) for the 3–4-field plans and 100.0% and 99.6% (p=0.125) for the 5–7-field plans. CT calibration uncertainties of ±3.5% led to a GTV V98% reduction below 1.5 percentual points in most cases and reaching 3 percentual points for 2-field plans with beam undershoot. ConclusionsThrough jet ventilation, reproducible tumor fixation for proton radiotherapy of lung lesions is achievable, ensuring excellent target coverage in most cases. In few cases, non-optimal patient setup reproducibility induced density changes across beam entrance channels, leading to dosimetric deterioration between planning and delivery.
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