MRI-guided cardiac-induced target motion tracking for atrial fibrillation cardiac radioablation
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology(2021)
摘要
Background and purpose: Atrial fibrillation (AF) cardiac radioablation (CR) challenges radiotherapy tracking: multiple small targets close to organs-at-risk undergo rapid differential cardiac contraction and respiratory motion. MR-guidance offers a real-time target tracking solution. This work develops and investigates MRI-guided tracking of AF CR targets with cardiac-induced motion. Materials and methods: A direct tracking method (Trackingdirect) and two indirect tracking methods leveraging population-based surrogacy relationships with the left atria (Tracking(indirect_LA)) or other target (Tracking(indirect_target)) were developed. Tracking performance was evaluated using transverse ECG-gated breathhold MRI images from 15 healthy and 10 AF participants. Geometric and volumetric tracking errors were calculated, defined as the difference between the ground-truth and tracked target centroids and volumes respectively. Transverse, breath-hold, noncardiac-gated cine images were acquired at 4 Hz in 5 healthy and 5 AF participants to qualitatively characterize tracking performance on images more comparable to MRILinac acquisitions. Results: The average 3D geometric tracking errors for Tracking(direct), Tracking(indirect_LA) and Tracking(indirect_target) respectively were 1.7 +/- 1.2 mm, 1.6 +/- 1.1 mm and 1.9 +/- 1.3 mm in healthy participants and 1.7 +/- 1.3 mm, 1.5 +/- 1.0 mm and 1.7 +/- 1.2 mm in AF participants. For Tracking(direct), 88% of analyzed images had 3D geometric tracking errors <3 mm and the average volume tracking error was 1.7 +/- 1. 3 cc. For Trackingdirect on non-cardiac-gated cine images, tracked targets overlapped organsat-risk or completely missed the target area on 2.2% and 0.08% of the images respectively. Conclusion: The feasibility of non-invasive MRI-guided tracking of cardiac-induced AF CR target motion was demonstrated for the first time, showing potential for improving AF CR treatment efficacy. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Atrial fibrillation,Cardiac arrhythmias,Radioablation,MRI-Linac,Stereotactic radiotherapy,Non-invasive
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