Abstract
Purpose:IGRT based on the bone matching may produce a larger target positioning error in terms of the reproducibility of the expiration breath hold. Therefore, the feasibility of the 3D image matching between planning CT image and pretreatment CBCT image based on the diaphragm matching was investigated.Methods:In fifteen‐nine liver SBRT cases, Lipiodol, uptake after TACE was outlined as the marker of the tumor. The relative coordinate of the isocenter obtained by the contrast matching was defined as the reference coordinate. The target positioning difference between diaphragm matching and bone matching were evaluated by the relative coordinate of the isocenter from the reference coordinate obtained by each matching technique. In addition, we evaluated PTV margins by van Herk setup margin formula.Results:The target positioning error by the diaphragm matching and the bone matching was 1.31±0.83 and 3.10±2.80 mm in the cranial‐caudal(C‐C) direction, 1.04±0.95 and 1.62±1.02 mm in the anterior‐posterior(A‐P) direction, 0.93±1.19 and 1.12±0.94 mm in the left‐right(L‐R) direction, respectively. The positioning error by the diaphragm matching was significantly smaller than the bone matching in the C‐C direction (p<0.05). The setup margin of diaphragm matching and bone matching that we had calculated based on van Herk margin formula was 4.5mm and 6.2mm(C‐C), and 3.6mm and 6.3mm(A‐P), and 2.6mm and 4.5mm(L‐R), respectively.Conclusion:IGRT based on a diaphragm matching could be one alternative image matching technique for the positioning of the patients with liver tumor.
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