Purpose: Utilization of breathhold scans with live tracking has a long track record of good published outcomes for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and is recommended by the manufacturer of the Synchrony tracking system. However, the popularity of four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) scans challenges the validity of the breathhold scan with live tracking technique. Although this study is not intended to prove the superiority of either method, we demonstrate the feasibility of using the breathhold scans with a phantom test and clinical examples.
Methods: A 4DCT of a perfect sphere was scanned at 20 breaths per minute and compared to a 4DCT of a small lung tumor in one patient and a 4DCT of a larger renal tumor in another patient, as well as to fiducial matching in a patient with pancreatic cancer. Normal exhale and normal inhale breathhold CT scans were performed for the pancreatic cancer patient, combined with Synchrony tracking on CyberKnife (Sunnyvale, CA: Accuray) for treatment.
Results: The 4DCT scan of the phantom exhibited considerable apparent deformation, which must be entirely due to imaging artifact since the perfect sphere in the phantom is known to be completely rigid. The 4DCT of the lung and renal tumors in patients had similar apparent deformation. Usually in patients, from 4DCT alone, it is difficult to determine how much was due to deformation and how much was due to artifact. Fiducial positions in the final normal exhale and normal inhale breathhold scans for Synchrony matched each other within 1mm for the pancreatic cancer patient.
Conclusion: We demonstrated the feasibility of breathhold scans with Synchrony live tracking, as recommended by the manufacturer. More studies will be needed to determine whether this method is better than using a 4DCT.
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