A treatment planning comparison between a novel rotating gamma system and robotic linear accelerator based intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy

Muhammad M. Fareed, Ahmed Eldib, Stephanie E. Weiss, Shelly B. Hayes, Jinsheng Li, Charlie C.M. Ma

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Abstract

To compare the dosimetric parameters of a novel rotating gamma ray system (RGS) with well-established CyberKnife system (CK) for treating malignant brain lesions. RGS has a treatment head of 16 cobalt-60 sources focused to the isocenter, which can rotate 360° on the ring gantry and swing 35° in the superior direction. We compared several dosimetric parameters in 10 patients undergoing brain stereotactic radiosurgery including plan normalization, number of beams and nodes for CK and shots for RGS, collimators used, estimated treatment time, D 2 cm and conformity index (CI) among two modalities. The median plan normalization for RGS was 56.7% versus 68.5% (p = 0.002) for CK plans. The median number of shots from RGS was 7.5 whereas the median number of beams and nodes for CK was 79.5 and 46. The median collimator's diameter used was 3.5 mm for RGS as compared to 5 mm for CK (p = 0.26). Mean D 2 cm was 5.57 Gy for CyberKnife whereas it was 3.11 Gy for RGS (p = 0.99). For RGS plans, the median CI was 1.4 compared to 1.3 for the CK treatment plans (p = 0.98). The average minimum and maximum doses to optic chiasm were 21 and 93 cGy for RGS as compared to 32 and 209 cGy for CK whereas these were 0.5 and 364 cGy by RGS and 18 and 399 cGy by CK to brainstem. The mean V12 Gy for brain predicting for radionecrosis with RGS was 3.75 cm3 as compared to 4.09 cm3 with the CK (p = 0.41). The dosimetric parameters of a novel RGS with a ring type gantry are comparable with CyberKnife, allowing its use for intracranial lesions and is worth exploring in a clinical setting.

Original languageEnglish
Article number035029
Pages (from-to)035029
JournalPhysics in Medicine and Biology
Volume63
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2018

Keywords

  • Brain Neoplasms/surgery
  • Gamma Rays
  • Humans
  • Particle Accelerators/instrumentation
  • Radiosurgery/methods
  • Radiotherapy Dosage
  • Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted/methods
  • Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated
  • Robotic Surgical Procedures/methods

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