Colien Hazelaar1, Max Dahele2, Hassan Mostafavi3, Lineke van der Weide2, Ben J Slotman2, Wilko F A R Verbakel2. 1. Department of Radiation Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: c.hazelaar@vumc.nl. 2. Department of Radiation Oncology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 3. Ginzton Technology Center, Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, California.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Spine stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) requires highly accurate positioning. We report our experience with markerless template matching and triangulation of kilovoltage images routinely acquired during spine SBRT, to determine spine position. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Kilovoltage images, continuously acquired at 7, 11 or 15 frames/s during volumetric modulated spine SBRT of 18 patients, consisting of 93 fluoroscopy datasets (1 dataset/arc), were analyzed off-line. Four patients were immobilized in a head/neck mask, 14 had no immobilization. Two-dimensional (2D) templates were created for each gantry angle from planning computed tomography data and registered to prefiltered kilovoltage images to determine 2D shifts between actual and planned spine position. Registrations were considered valid if the normalized cross correlation score was ≥0.15. Multiple registrations were triangulated to determine 3D position. For each spine position dataset, average positional offset and standard deviation were calculated. To verify the accuracy and precision of the technique, mean positional offset and standard deviation for twenty stationary phantom datasets with different baseline shifts were measured. RESULTS: For the phantom, average standard deviations were 0.18 mm for left-right (LR), 0.17 mm for superior-inferior (SI), and 0.23 mm for the anterior-posterior (AP) direction. Maximum difference in average detected and applied shift was 0.09 mm. For the 93 clinical datasets, the percentage of valid matched frames was, on average, 90.7% (range: 49.9-96.1%) per dataset. Average standard deviations for all datasets were 0.28, 0.19, and 0.28 mm for LR, SI, and AP, respectively. Spine position offsets were, on average, -0.05 (range: -1.58 to 2.18), -0.04 (range: -3.56 to 0.82), and -0.03 mm (range: -1.16 to 1.51), respectively. Average positional deviation was <1 mm in all directions in 92% of the arcs. CONCLUSIONS: Template matching and triangulation using kilovoltage images acquired during irradiation allows spine position detection with submillimeter accuracy at subsecond intervals. Although the majority of patients were not immobilized, most vertebrae were stable at the sub-mm level during spine SBRT delivery.
PURPOSE: Spine stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) requires highly accurate positioning. We report our experience with markerless template matching and triangulation of kilovoltage images routinely acquired during spine SBRT, to determine spine position. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Kilovoltage images, continuously acquired at 7, 11 or 15 frames/s during volumetric modulated spine SBRT of 18 patients, consisting of 93 fluoroscopy datasets (1 dataset/arc), were analyzed off-line. Four patients were immobilized in a head/neck mask, 14 had no immobilization. Two-dimensional (2D) templates were created for each gantry angle from planning computed tomography data and registered to prefiltered kilovoltage images to determine 2D shifts between actual and planned spine position. Registrations were considered valid if the normalized cross correlation score was ≥0.15. Multiple registrations were triangulated to determine 3D position. For each spine position dataset, average positional offset and standard deviation were calculated. To verify the accuracy and precision of the technique, mean positional offset and standard deviation for twenty stationary phantom datasets with different baseline shifts were measured. RESULTS: For the phantom, average standard deviations were 0.18 mm for left-right (LR), 0.17 mm for superior-inferior (SI), and 0.23 mm for the anterior-posterior (AP) direction. Maximum difference in average detected and applied shift was 0.09 mm. For the 93 clinical datasets, the percentage of valid matched frames was, on average, 90.7% (range: 49.9-96.1%) per dataset. Average standard deviations for all datasets were 0.28, 0.19, and 0.28 mm for LR, SI, and AP, respectively. Spine position offsets were, on average, -0.05 (range: -1.58 to 2.18), -0.04 (range: -3.56 to 0.82), and -0.03 mm (range: -1.16 to 1.51), respectively. Average positional deviation was <1 mm in all directions in 92% of the arcs. CONCLUSIONS: Template matching and triangulation using kilovoltage images acquired during irradiation allows spine position detection with submillimeter accuracy at subsecond intervals. Although the majority of patients were not immobilized, most vertebrae were stable at the sub-mm level during spine SBRT delivery.
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