Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan;
Department of Radiation Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan.
In Vivo. 2021 Jul-Aug;35(4):2089-2098. doi: 10.21873/invivo.12478.
BACKGROUND/AIM: To evaluate the surrogate-guided registration accuracy of two computed tomography (CT) image sets, expiratory phase four-dimensional (Ex4D) CT and breath-holding CT (BHCT), in respiratory-gated radiotherapy for liver cancer.
The surrogate-guided registration errors were defined as the differences between the diaphragm- and fiducial-guided registrations or the differences between upper and lower fiducial registrations in three directions: left-right (LR), anterior-posterior (AP), and cranio-caudal (CC).
The mean±SDs of the absolute errors for diaphragm-guided registration were 1.9±1.3, 2.7±1.8, and 2.6±1.7 mm with Ex4D and 1.8±1.8, 2.6±1.9, and 1.8±1.7 mm with BHCT in the LR, AP and CC directions, respectively (CC direction, p<0.01). In the fiducial-guided registration, there were no significant differences in any direction. In registration with Ex4D, there were positive correlations between registration errors and the respiratory irregularity during 4D scanning (correlation coefficient; diaphragm: 0.65, fiducial: 0.54).
BHCT has the advantage of accurate surrogate-guided registration compared with Ex4D.
背景/目的:评估两种 CT 图像(呼气末 4DCT 和屏气 CT)在肝癌呼吸门控放疗中,基于替代物引导的配准精度。
替代物引导的配准误差定义为膈肌和基准引导配准之间的差异,或在三个方向(左右、前后和头脚)的上下基准配准之间的差异。
Ex4D 和 BHCT 在左右、前后和头脚方向的膈肌引导配准的绝对误差均值±标准差分别为 1.9±1.3mm、2.7±1.8mm 和 2.6±1.7mm(头脚方向,p<0.01)。在基准引导配准中,在任何方向上均无显著差异。在 Ex4D 配准中,注册误差与 4D 扫描期间的呼吸不规则性之间存在正相关(相关系数;膈肌:0.65,基准:0.54)。
与 Ex4D 相比,BHCT 在基于替代物引导的配准方面具有优势。