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Evaluation of Setup Uncertainty on the CTV Dose and Setup Margin Using Monte Carlo Simulation  

Cho, Il-Sung (Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Kwark, Jung-Won (Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Cho, Byung-Chul (Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Kim, Jong-Hoon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Ahn, Seung-Do (Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Park, Sung-Ho (Department of Radiation Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.23, no.2, 2012 , pp. 81-90 More about this Journal
Abstract
The effect of setup uncertainties on CTV dose and the correlation between setup uncertainties and setup margin were evaluated by Monte Carlo based numerical simulation. Patient specific information of IMRT treatment plan for rectal cancer designed on the VARIAN Eclipse planning system was utilized for the Monte Carlo simulation program including the planned dose distribution and tumor volume information of a rectal cancer patient. The simulation program was developed for the purpose of the study on Linux environment using open source packages, GNU C++ and ROOT data analysis framework. All misalignments of patient setup were assumed to follow the central limit theorem. Thus systematic and random errors were generated according to the gaussian statistics with a given standard deviation as simulation input parameter. After the setup error simulations, the change of dose in CTV volume was analyzed with the simulation result. In order to verify the conventional margin recipe, the correlation between setup error and setup margin was compared with the margin formula developed on three dimensional conformal radiation therapy. The simulation was performed total 2,000 times for each simulation input of systematic and random errors independently. The size of standard deviation for generating patient setup errors was changed from 1 mm to 10 mm with 1 mm step. In case for the systematic error the minimum dose on CTV $D_{min}^{stat{\cdot}}$ was decreased from 100.4 to 72.50% and the mean dose $\bar{D}_{syst{\cdot}}$ was decreased from 100.45% to 97.88%. However the standard deviation of dose distribution in CTV volume was increased from 0.02% to 3.33%. The effect of random error gave the same result of a reduction of mean and minimum dose to CTV volume. It was found that the minimum dose on CTV volume $D_{min}^{rand{\cdot}}$ was reduced from 100.45% to 94.80% and the mean dose to CTV $\bar{D}_{rand{\cdot}}$ was decreased from 100.46% to 97.87%. Like systematic error, the standard deviation of CTV dose ${\Delta}D_{rand}$ was increased from 0.01% to 0.63%. After calculating a size of margin for each systematic and random error the "population ratio" was introduced and applied to verify margin recipe. It was found that the conventional margin formula satisfy margin object on IMRT treatment for rectal cancer. It is considered that the developed Monte-carlo based simulation program might be useful to study for patient setup error and dose coverage in CTV volume due to variations of margin size and setup error.
Keywords
IMRT; Setup uncertainty; Setup margin; Monte Carlo simulation; Treatment planning;
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