Background/aim: Interfractional anatomical variations cause considerable differences between planned and actual radiotherapy doses. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of robust and planning target volume (PTV) margin-based optimizations for the anatomical variations in helical tomotherapy for prostate cancer.
Patients And Methods: Ten patients underwent treatment-planning kilovolt computed tomography (kVCT) and daily megavolt computed tomography (MVCT). Two types of nominal plans, with a prescription of 60 Gy/20 fractions, were created using robust and PTV margin-based optimizations on kVCT for each patient. Subsequently, the daily estimated doses were recalculated using nominal plans, and all available MVCTs modified the daily patient-setup errors. Due to the difference in dose calculation accuracy between kVCT and MVCT, three scenarios with dose corrections of 1, 2, and 3% were considered in the recalculation process. The dosimetric metrics, including target coverage with the prescription dose, Paddick's conformity index, homogeneity index, and mean dose to the rectum, were analyzed.
Results: A dosimetric comparison of the nominal plans demonstrated that the robust plans had better dose conformity, lower target coverage, and dose homogeneity than the PTV plans. In the daily estimated doses of any dose-corrected scenario, the target coverage and dose sparing to the rectum in the robust plans were significantly higher than those in the PTV plans, whereas dose conformity and homogeneity were identical to those of the nominal case.
Conclusion: Robust optimization is recommended as it accounts for anatomical variations during treatment regarding target coverage in helical tomotherapy plans for prostate cancer.
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