Measurement of lung tumor motion using respiration-correlated CT Journal Article


Authors: Mageras, G. S.; Pevsner, A.; Yorke, E. D.; Rosenzweig, K. E.; Ford, E. C.; Hertanto, A.; Larson, S. M.; Lovelock, D. M.; Erdi, Y. E.; Nehmeh, S. A.; Humm, J. L.; Ling, C. C.
Article Title: Measurement of lung tumor motion using respiration-correlated CT
Abstract: We investigate the characteristics of lung tumor motion measured with respiration-correlated computed tomography (RCCT) and examine the method's applicability to radiotherapy planning and treatment. Six patients treated for non-small-cell lung carcinoma received a helical single-slice computed tomography (CT) scan with a slow couch movement (1 mm/s), while simultaneously respiration is recorded with an external position-sensitive monitor. Another 6 patients receive a 4-slice CT scan in a cine mode, in which sequential images are acquired for a complete respiratory cycle at each couch position while respiration is recorded. The images are retrospectively resorted into different respiration phases as measured with the external monitor (4-slice data) or patient surface displacement observed in the images (single-slice data). The gross tumor volume (GTV) in lung is delineated at one phase and serves as a visual guide for delineation at other phases. Interfractional GTV variation is estimated by scaling diaphragm position variations measured in gated radiographs at treatment with the ratio of GTV:diaphragm displacement observed in the RCCT data. Seven out of 12 patients show GTV displacement with respiration of more than 1 cm, primarily in the superior-inferior (SI) direction; 2 patients show anterior-posterior displacement of more than 1 cm. In all cases, extremes in GTV position in the SI direction are consistent with externally measured extremes in respiration. Three patients show evidence of hysteresis in GTV motion, in which the tumor trajectory is displaced 0.2 to 0.5 cm anteriorly during expiration relative to inspiration. Significant (>1 cm) expansion of the GTV in the SI direction with respiration is observed in 1 patient. Estimated intrafractional GTV motion for gated treatment at end expiration is 0.6 cm or less in all cases; however; interfraction variation estimates (systematic plus random) are more than 1 cm in 3/9 patients. Respiration-correlated CT can be performed with currently available CT equipment and acquisition settings. RCCT provides not only three-dimensional information on intrafractional tumor motion and deformation, but also allows estimates of interfractional tumor variation when combined with radiographic measurements of diaphragm position variation during treatment. © 2004 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords: clinical article; computer assisted tomography; tumor volume; lung non small cell cancer; carcinoma, non-small-cell lung; lung neoplasms; radiotherapy; lung cancer; tomography, x-ray computed; oncology; computerized tomography; tumors; thorax radiography; radiotherapy planning, computer-assisted; respiration; computed tomography; radiation treatment planning; cells; anterior posterior axis; breathing; movement; monitor; pulmonary diseases; hysteresis; humans; human; priority journal; article; expiration; respiration correlated computed tomography; respiration phase; respiratory cycle; diaphragms
Journal Title: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics
Volume: 60
Issue: 3
ISSN: 0360-3016
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.  
Date Published: 2004-11-01
Start Page: 933
End Page: 941
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.06.021
PROVIDER: scopus
PUBMED: 15465212
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Notes: Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. -- Cited By (since 1996):143 -- Export Date: 16 June 2014 -- CODEN: IOBPD -- Source: Scopus
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  1. Alexander Pevsner
    12 Pevsner
  2. Eric C Ford
    18 Ford
  3. Gikas S Mageras
    277 Mageras
  4. Ellen D Yorke
    451 Yorke
  5. Sadek Nehmeh
    69 Nehmeh
  6. John Laurence Humm
    436 Humm
  7. Dale M Lovelock
    183 Lovelock
  8. Yusuf E Erdi
    118 Erdi
  9. Steven M Larson
    959 Larson
  10. C Clifton Ling
    331 Ling