Background And Purpose: Inverse treatment planning for lung cancer can be challenging since density heterogeneities may appear inside the planning target volume (PTV). One method to improve the quality of intensity modulation is the override of low density tissues inside the PTV during plan optimization. For magnetic resonance-guided radiation therapy (MRgRT), where the influence of the magnetic field on secondary electrons is sensitive to the tissue density, the reliability of density overrides has not yet been proven. This work, therefore, gains a first insight into density override strategies for MRgRT.
Material And Methods: Monte Carlo-based treatment plans for five lung cancer patients were generated based on free-breathing CTs and two density override strategies. Different magnetic field configurations were considered with their effect being accounted for during optimization. Optimized plans were forward calculated to 4D-CTs and accumulated for the comparison of planned and expected delivered dose.
Results: For MRgRT, density overrides led to a discrepancy between the delivered and planned dose. The tumor volume coverage deteriorated for perpendicular magnetic fields of 1.5 T to 93.6% (D). For inline fields a maximal increase of 2.2% was found for the mean dose. In terms of organs at risk, a maximal sparing of 0.6 Gy and 0.9 Gy was observed for lung and heart, respectively.
Conclusions: In this work, first results on the effect of density overrides on treatment planning for MRgRT are presented. It was observed that the underestimation of magnetic field effects in overridden densities during treatment planning resulted in an altered delivered dose, depending on the field strength and orientation.
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