Bär, E;
Collins-Fekete, C-A;
Rompokos, V;
Zhang, Y;
Gaze, MN;
Warry, A;
Poynter, A;
(2021)
Assessment of the impact of CT calibration procedures for proton therapy planning on paediatric treatments.
Medical Physics
, 48
(9)
pp. 5202-5218.
10.1002/mp.15062.
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Abstract
PURPOSE: Relative stopping powers (RSP) for proton therapy are estimated using single-energy CT (SECT), calibrated with standardised tissues of the adult male. It is assumed that those tissues are representative of tissues of all age and sex. Female, male and paediatric tissues differ from one another in density and composition. In this study, we use tabulated paediatric tissues and computational phantoms to investigate the impact of this assumption on paediatric proton therapy. The potential of dual-energy CT (DECT) to improve the accuracy of these calculations is explored. METHODS: We study 51 human body tissues, categorised into male/female for the age groups newborn, 1-, 5-, 10-, 15-year old and adult, with given compositions and densities. CT numbers are simulated and RSPs are estimated using SECT and DECT methods. Estimated tissue RSPs from each method are compared to theoretical RSP. The dose and range errors of each approach is evaluated on 3 computational phantoms (Ewing's sarcoma, salivary sarcoma, glioma) derived from paediatric proton therapy patients. RESULTS: With SECT, soft tissues have mean estimation errors and standard deviation up to (1.96 ± 4.18)% observed in newborns, compared to (0.20 ± 1.15)% in adult males. Mean estimation errors for bones are up to (-3.35 ± 4.76)% in paediatrics as opposed to (0.10 ± 0.66)% in adult males. With DECT, mean errors reduce to (0.17 ± 0.13)% and (0.23 ± 0.22)% in newborns (soft tissues/bones). With SECT, dose errors in a Ewing's sarcoma phantom are exceeding 5 Gy (10% of prescribed dose) at the distal end of the treatment field, with volumes of dose errors >5 Gy of Vdiff> 5 = 4630.7mm3 . Similar observations are made in the head and neck phantoms, with overdoses to healthy tissue exceeding 2 Gy (4%). A systematic Bragg peak shift resulting in either over- or underdosage of healthy tissues and target volumes depending on the crossed tissues RSP prediction errors is observed. Water equivalent range errors of single beams are between -1.53mm and 5.50mm (min, max) (Ewing's sarcoma phantom), -0.78mm and 3.62mm (salivary sarcoma phantom), and -0.43mm and 1.41mm (glioma phantom). DECT can reduce dose errors to <1 Gy and range errors to <1 mm. CONCLUSION: SECT estimates RSPs for paediatric tissues with systematic shifts. DECT improves the accuracy of RSPs and dose distributions in paediatric tissues compared to the SECT calibration curve based on adult males tissues.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Assessment of the impact of CT calibration procedures for proton therapy planning on paediatric treatments |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/mp.15062 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15062 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Authors. Medical Physics published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Association of Physicists in Medicine This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | dual-energy CT, imaging for protons, paediatric cancer, paediatric treatment planning |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10130863 |
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