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Evaluation of the Accuracy and usability of Trigger mode in Respiratory Gated Radiation Therapy  

Park, je wan (Department of Radiation Oncology, ASAN Medical Center)
Kim, min su (Department of Radiation Oncology, ASAN Medical Center)
Um, ki cheon (Department of Radiation Oncology, ASAN Medical Center)
Choi, seong hoon (Department of Radiation Oncology, ASAN Medical Center)
Song, heung kwon (Department of Radiation Oncology, ASAN Medical Center)
Yoon, in ha (Department of Radiation Oncology, ASAN Medical Center)
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The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy / v.33, no., 2021 , pp. 25-33 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy and usefulness of the Trigger mode for the Respiratory Gated Radiation Therapy (RGRT) Materials and methods : A QUASAR respiratory phantom that inserted a 3 mm fiducial marker (a gold marker) was used to estimate the accuracy of the Trigger mode. And the 20 bpm was used as reference respiration rate in this study. The marker that placed at the center of the phantom was contoured, and the lower threshold of a gating window was fixed at 2.0 mm using an OBI with Truebeam STxTM. The upper threshold was measured every 0.5 mm from 1.0 mm to 3.0 mm. The respiration rates were changed every 10 bpm from 10 bpm to 60 bpm. We repeatedly measured five times to check the error rate of the trigger mode in the same condition. Result : The differences of a distance from a peak phase to upper threshold, 1.0 to 3.0 mm at a 20 bpm as a reference for 3 days in a row were 0.68±0.05 mm, 0.91±0.03 mm, 1.23±0.03 mm, 1.42±0.04 mm, and 1.66±0.06 mm, respectively. Measurement result of changes in respiratory rate compared to baseline respiratory rate in maximum absolute difference. The coefficient of determination (R2) to estimate the correlation between the respiration velocity and variation of absolute difference was on average 0.838, 0.887, 0.770, 0.850, and 0.906. The p-values of all the variables were below 0.05. Conclusion : Using Trigger mode during respiratory gated radiation therapy (RGRT), accuracy and usefulness of trigger mode at reference breathing rate were confirmed. However, inaccuracies depending on the rate of breathing it could be uncertain in case of respiration rate is faster than 20 bpm as a standard respiration rate compared to slower than 20 bpm. Consequently, when conducting a RGRT using the trigger mode, real time monitoring is required with well educated respiration.
Keywords
Respiratory Gated Radiation Therapy(RGRT); Trigger mode; Respiratory Rate; Phantom Study;
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