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SU‐FF‐T‐73: Evaluation of Inverse Planning Dose Optimization for HDR Brachytherapy in Treatment of Cervical Cancer
Author(s) -
Tao L,
Taylor B
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.3181546
Subject(s) - brachytherapy , radiation treatment planning , nuclear medicine , dosimetry , medicine , simulated annealing , cervical cancer , radiation therapy , medical physics , cancer , radiology , mathematical optimization , mathematics
Purpose: We investigated the differences between geometrical optimization and inverse planning simulated annealing (IPSA) for the treatment of cervical cancer. Methods and Materials: Patients were selected and two optimization plans for each patient were generated with geometrical optimization and IPSA. The clinic target volume and critical organs were contoured using Oncentra MasterPlan Version 3.1(Nucletron Corp., Veenendaal, The Netherlands). For each patient, the dose constrains and optimization parameters were set to meet clinic goal for all plans. The dose volume histograms (DVH) of target and critical organs were generated for comparison. Results: We found that IPSA significantly improved the target dose homogeneity compared with geometrical optimization. For the tumors adjacent to critical structures, IPSA dramatically spared the volume of the critical structures to be irradiated. Conclusions: IPSA is superior over geometrical optimization in terms of target coverage and minimizing normal structures irradiated.