Static beam tomotherapy (TD) as an optimisation method in whole breast radiation therapy (WBRT) Squires, M (BMRS (RT) MA MIR JP MBA(cand.)), Cheers, S (BAppSc (MRS)), Fong, A (BSc(Med) MB BS MeH FRANZCR), Archibald- Heeren, B (BMRS (RT)), Hu, Y (BMP MSc), Teh, A (BSc(Med) MB BS (Hons) FRANZCR)
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Static beam tomotherapy (TD) as an optimisation method in whole breast
radiation therapy (WBRT)Squires, M (BMRS (RT) MA MIR JP MBA(cand.)), Cheers, S (BAppSc (MRS)), Fong, A
(BSc(Med) MB BS MeH FRANZCR), Archibald-Heeren, B (BMRS (RT)), Hu, Y (BMP MSc), Teh, A (BSc(Med) MB BS (Hons) FRANZCR)
• The linear accelerator traditionally used in whole breast radiation therapy • Is tomotherapy a viable alternative?
Background
• What is tomotherapy?
Background
Background
• Traditional tangents• Helical (tomo / VMAT)• TomoDirect
Background
To evaluate static beam tomotherapy (TD) as a method of dose optimisation for the delivery of whole breast radiation therapy (WBRT)
Aim
• Treatment plans of 27 women previously optimised on RayStation v4.5 (RaySearch, Stockholm, Sweden) were replanned using TomoDirect (Accuray, Sunnyvale, California)
Methods and Materials
• A simple medial and lateral beam arrangement was utilised, with no OARs included in optimisation• A ring volume (+0.2cm-+2.0cm) was used to control integral dose.
Prescriptions were normalised to 50Gy and planning time recorded
Methods and Materials
• TD parameters included a field width of 2.5cm, a (default) pitch of 0.251 and a modulation factor of 2.000
Methods and Materials
• Both modalities fell within ICRU62 target homogeneity objectives• Median
TD = 51.1Gy vs IMRT = 50.9Gy, p=0.03
• D1 TD = 53.5Gy vs IMRT = 53.0Gy, p=0.02
• Homogeneity index (HI) TD = 0.11 vs IMRT = 0.10, p=0.03
Results
• Both modalities fell within ICRU62 target homogeneity objectives• VTD
TD = 85.5% vs IMRT = 82.0%, p=0.09 (No significant difference)
• Heart TD V5 = 2.7% vs IMRT = 2.8%, p=0.47 TD V10 = 1.7% vs IMRT = 1.8%, p=0.44
Results
Conclusion
Static beam tomotherapy (TD) can provide a superior method of whole breast radiation therapy (WBRT):
• Comparable target metrics • A reduced ipsilateral lung dose• A reduced user optimisation time
ROC Gosford
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