Background And Purpose: Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) involves frequent in-room imaging sessions contributing to additional patient irradiation. The present work provided patient-specific dosimetric data related to different imaging protocols and anatomical sites.
Material And Methods: We developed a Monte Carlo based software able to calculate 3D personalized dose distributions for five imaging devices delivering kV-CBCT (Elekta and Varian linacs), MV-CT (Tomotherapy machines) and 2D-kV stereoscopic images from BrainLab and Accuray.
Purpose: To evaluate the repositioning accuracy of 4 immobilization devices (ID) used for whole breast Helical Tomotherapy treatments: arm float with VacFix® (Par Scientific, Denmark), all-in-one® (AIO®) system (Orfit, Belgium), MacroCast thermoplastic mask (Macromedics, The Netherlands) and BlueBag® system with Arm-Shuttle (Elekta, Sweden).
Materials And Methods: Twenty four women with breast cancer with PTV including the breast/chest wall and lymph nodes were involved in this study (6 women per group). Pretreatment registration results were first collected using automatic bone registration + manual adjustment on the vertebra followed by independent registrations on different ROIs representing each treated area (axillary, mammary chain, clavicular, breast/chest wall).