Incorporating uncertainty bounds in daily deformable dose accumulation for adaptive radiation therapy of head-and-neck cancer.
Medical physics(2023)
Abstract
Uncertainty bounds were incorporated into the results of a commercial DDA tool. The cohort's statistics showed that the parotids' cumulative DVH metrics frequently exceeded the planning values if confidence intervals were included. Most of the uncertainty bounds of the PTV metrics were kept within the clinical thresholds. We verified that mid-treatment violation projections led to exceeding the constraint point at the end of the treatment. Based on a 3% threshold, approximately one fourth of the patients are expected to be replanned at mid-treatment for parotids sparing during HNC radiotherapy.
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Key words
adaptive radiation therapy,deformable dose accumulation,deformable image registration,megavoltage-computed tomography
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