A case study comparing the relative benefit of optimizing beam weights, wedge angles, beam orientations and tomotherapy in stereotactic radiotherapy of the brain

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2123-2146

  Oldham, M ^a   Khoo, V S ^a   Rowbottom, C G ^a   Bedford, J L ^a   Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; NEURORADIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOMA; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PITUITARY IRRADIATION; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0031877043     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/8/010     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Bedford J L, Oldham M, Hoess A, Evans P M, Shentall G S and Webb S 1997 Methods for transferring patient and plan data between radiotherapy treatment-planning systems Brit. J. Radiol 70 740-9
2. Bendl R, Keller-Reichenbecher M A, Hoess A and Schlegel W 1997 The spherical view-a tool for the interactive optimisation of irradiation directions Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on the Use of Computers in Radiotherapy ed D D Leavitt and G Starkshall (Salt Lake City, UT: Medical Physics Publishing) pp 302-5
3. Bortfeld T, Boyer A L, Schlegel W, Kahler D L and Waldron T J 1994 Realisation and verification of 3D conformai radiotherapy with modulated fields Int. J, Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 30 899-908
4. Bortfeld T, Schlegel W and Rhein B 1993 Decomposition of pencil beam kernels for fast dose calculations in 3D treatment-planning Med. Phys. 20 311-18
5. Bortfeld T, Stein J and Preiser K 1997 Clinically relevant intensity-modulation optimisation using physical criteria Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on the Use of Computers in Radiotherapy ed D D Leavitt and G Starkshall (Salt Lake City, UT: Medical Physics Publishing) pp 1-4
6. Brahme A 1988 Optimization of stationary and moving beam radiation therapy techniques Radiother. Oncol 12 129-40
7. Carol M P 1992 An automatic 3D treatment-planning and implementation system for optimised conformai therapy by the NOMOS Corporation Proc. 34th Ann. Meeting Am. Soc. Ther. Radiol. Oncol (1992)
8. _ 1994a An automatic 3D conformai treatment-planning system for linear accelerator based beam modulation radiotherapy The Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy: Proc. 11th Conf. ed A R Hounsell et al (Manchester: Medical Physics Publishing) pp 108-9
9. _ 1994b Integrated 3D conformai multivane intensity-modulation delivery system for radiotherapy The Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy: Proc. llth Conf. ed A R Hounsell et al (Manchester: Medical Physics Publishing) pp 172-3
10. _ 1995 PEACOCK: a system for planning and rotational delivery of intensity-modulated fields Int. J. Imaging Syst. Technol. 6 56-61
11. Carol M P, Grant W III, Bleier A R, Kania A A, Targovnik H S, Butler E B and Woo S W 1996 The field-matching problem as it applies to the PEACOCK three-dimensional conformai system for intensity-modulation Im. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 34 183-7
12. Carol M, Nash R V, Campbell C, Huber R and Sternick E 1997 The development of a clinically intuitive approach to inverse treatment-planning: partial volume prescription and area cost function Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on the Use of Computers in Radiotherapy ed D D Leavitt and G Starkshall (Salt Lake City, UT: Medical Physics Publishing) pp 317-19
13. Curran B 1997 Conformai therapy using a multileaf intensity modulating collimator The Theory and Practice of Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) ed E Stemice (Madison: Advanced Medical) pp 75-90
14. ICRU 1993 ICRU Report 50
15. Kutcher G J and Burman C 1989 Calculation of complication probability factors for non-uniform normal tissue irradiation: the effective volume method Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 16 1623-30
16. Laing R W, Bentley R E, Nahum A E, Warrington A P and Brada M 1993 Stereotactic radiotherapy of irregular targets: a comparison between static conformal beams and non-coplanar arcs Radiother. Oncol. 28 241-6
17. Low D A and Mutic S 1997 Abutment region dosimetry for sequential arc IMRT delivery Phys. Med. Biol. 42 1465-70
18. Mackie T R, Holmes T W, Reckwerdt P J and Yang J 1995 Tomotherapy: optimised planning and delivery of radiation therapy Int. J. Imaging Syst. Technol. 6 43-55
19. Mageras G S and Mohan R 1993 Application of fast simulated annealing to optimization of conformai radiation treatments Med. Phys. 20 639-47
20. Neal A J, Oldham M and Dearnaley D 1995 Comparison of treatment techniques for conformai radiotherapy of the prostate using dose-volume-histograms and normal tissue complication probabilities Radiother. Oncol. 37 29-34
21. Nelder J A and Mead R 1965 Comput. J. 1 308-13
22. _ Oldham M, Baustert I B, Lord C, Smith T A R, McJury M, Leach M O, Warrington A P and Webb S 1998 An investigation into the dosimetry of a nine-field tomotherapy irradiation using BANG-gel dosimetry Phys. Med. Biol. 43 1113-32
23. Oldham M, Neal A and Webb S 1995a The optimisation of wedge filters in radiotherapy of the prostate Radiother. Oncol. 37 209-20
24. _ 1995b A comparison of conventional 'forward planning' with inverse planning for 3D conformai radiotherapy of the prostate Radiother. Oncol. 35 248-62
25. Oldham M and Webb S 1995 The optimisation and inherreot limitations of 3D conformai radiotherapy treatment-plans of the prostate Br. J. Radiol. 68 882-93
26. Oldham M and Webb S 1997 Intensity-modulated radiotherapy by means of static tomotherapy: a planning and verification study Med. Phys. 24 803-14
27. NOMOS 1995 PEACOCK Plan Operators Manual Release Notes 1.11r5 (Sewickley, PA: NOMOS)
28. Petti P L and Siddon R L 1985 Effective wedge angles with a universal wedge Phys. Med. Biol 30 985-91
29. Press W H, Flannery B P, Teukolsky S A and Vetterling W T 1986 Numerical Recipes in C (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p 307
30. Rowbottom C G, Webb S and Oldham M 1998 Improvements in prostate radiotherapy from the customisation of beam directions Med. Phys. at press
31. Webb S 1997 The Physics of Conformai Radiotherapy: Advances in Technology (Bristol: Institute of Physics)
32. _ 1991 Optimisation of conformai radiotherapy dose distributions by simulated annealing 2: inclusion of scatter in the 2D technique Phys. Med. Biol 36 1227-37
33. Webb S and Oldham M 1996 A method to study the characteristics of 3D dose distributions created by superposition of many intensity-modulated beams delivered via a slit aperture with multiple absorbing vanes Phys. Med. Biol. 41 2135-53