TU‐C‐17A‐07: FusionARC Treatment with Adaptive Beam Selection Method

Abstract

Purpose:Recently, a new treatment scheme, FusionARC, has been introduced to compensate for the pitfalls in single‐arc VMAT planning. It basically allows for the static field treatment in selected locations, while the remaining is treated by single‐rotational arc delivery. The important issue is how to choose the directions for static field treatment. This study presents an adaptive beam selection method to formulate fusionARC treatment scheme.Methods:The optimal plan for single‐rotational arc treatment is obtained from two‐step approach based on the reweighted total‐variation (TV) minimization. To choose the directions for static field treatment with extra segments, a value of our proposed cost function at each field is computed on the new fluence‐map, which adds an extra segment to the designated field location only. The cost function is defined as a summation of equivalent uniform dose (EUD) of all structures with the fluence‐map, while assuming that the lower cost function value implies the enhancement of plan quality. Finally, the extra segments for static field treatment would be added to the selected directions with low cost function values. A prostate patient data was applied and evaluated with three different plans: conventional VMAT, fusionARC, and static IMRT.Results:The 7 field locations, corresponding to the lowest cost function values, are chosen to insert extra segment for step‐and‐shoot dose delivery. Our proposed fusionARC plan with the selected angles improves the dose sparing to the critical organs, relative to static IMRT and conventional VMAT plans. The dose conformity to the target is significantly enhanced at the small expense of treatment time, compared with VMAT plan. Its estimated treatment time, however, is still much faster than IMRT.Conclusion:The fusionARC treatment with adaptive beam selection method could improve the plan quality with insignificant damage in the treatment time, relative to the conventional VMAT.