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Body motion during dynamic couch tracking with healthy volunteers.
Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 November 24
INTRODUCTION: In precision radiotherapy, the intrafractional motion can cause a considerable uncertainty of the location of the tumor to be treated. An established approach is the expansion of the target volume to account for the motion. An alternative approach is couch tracking, in which the patient is continually moved to compensate the intrafractional motion. However, couch tracking itself might induce uncertainty of the patient's body position, because it is not perfectly fixed to the couch.
METHODS AND MATERIALS: One hundred volunteers were positioned supine on a robotic couch. Optical markers were placed on the torso of the volunteers as well as on the couch, and their positions were tracked with an optical surface measurement system. Using these markers, the uncertainty of the body position relative to the couch position was estimated while the couch was static or moving.
RESULTS: Over the included 85 volunteers, the median of the uncertainty increased by 0.8 mm (SI), 0.4 mm (LR), and 0.4 mm (AP) when the couch moved.
CONCLUSION: Couch motion was found to increase the uncertainty of the body position relative to the couch. However, this uncertainty is one order of magnitude smaller than the intrafractional tumor motion amplitudes to be compensated. Therefore, even with body motion present, the couch tracking approach is a viable option. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02820532) and the Swiss national clinical trials portal (SNCTP000001878).
METHODS AND MATERIALS: One hundred volunteers were positioned supine on a robotic couch. Optical markers were placed on the torso of the volunteers as well as on the couch, and their positions were tracked with an optical surface measurement system. Using these markers, the uncertainty of the body position relative to the couch position was estimated while the couch was static or moving.
RESULTS: Over the included 85 volunteers, the median of the uncertainty increased by 0.8 mm (SI), 0.4 mm (LR), and 0.4 mm (AP) when the couch moved.
CONCLUSION: Couch motion was found to increase the uncertainty of the body position relative to the couch. However, this uncertainty is one order of magnitude smaller than the intrafractional tumor motion amplitudes to be compensated. Therefore, even with body motion present, the couch tracking approach is a viable option. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02820532) and the Swiss national clinical trials portal (SNCTP000001878).
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