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Article Dans Une Revue Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology Année : 2022

Monte Carlo-based software for 3D personalized dose calculations in image-guided radiotherapy

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) involves frequent in-room imaging sessions contributing to additional patient irradiation. The present work provided patient-specific dosimetric data related to different imaging protocols and anatomical sites. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We developed a Monte Carlo based software able to calculate 3D personalized dose distributions for five imaging devices delivering kV-CBCT (Elekta and Varian linacs), MV-CT (Tomotherapy machines) and 2D-kV stereoscopic images from BrainLab and Accuray. Our study reported the dose distributions calculated for pelvis, head and neck and breast cases based on dose volume histograms for several organs at risk. RESULTS: 2D-kV imaging provided the minimum dose with less than 1 mGy per image pair. For a single kV-CBCT and MV-CT, median dose to organs were respectively around 30 mGy and 15 mGy for the pelvis, around 7 mGy and 10 mGy for the head and neck and around 5 mGy and 15 mGy for the breast. While MV-CT dose varied sparsely with tissues, dose from kV imaging was around 1.7 times higher in bones than in soft tissue. Daily kV-CBCT along 40 sessions of prostate radiotherapy delivered up to 3.5 Gy to the femoral heads. The dose level for head and neck and breast appeared to be lower than 0.4 Gy for every organ in case of a daily imaging session. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed the dosimetric impact of IGRT procedures. Acquisition parameters should therefore be chosen wisely depending on the clinical purposes and tailored to morphology. Indeed, imaging dose could be reduced up to a factor 10 with optimized protocols.
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hal-03631152 , version 1 (05-04-2022)
hal-03631152 , version 2 (05-04-2022)

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Coralie Le Deroff, Lucie Berger, Julien Bellec, Guillaume Boissonnat, Héléna Chesneau, et al.. Monte Carlo-based software for 3D personalized dose calculations in image-guided radiotherapy. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 2022, 21, pp.108-114. ⟨10.1016/j.phro.2022.02.004⟩. ⟨hal-03631152v2⟩
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