Vis enkel innførsel

dc.contributor.authorFjæra, Lars Fredrik
dc.contributor.authorIndelicato, Daniel J.
dc.contributor.authorYtre-Hauge, Kristian
dc.contributor.authorMuren, Ludvig Paul
dc.contributor.authorLassen-Ramshad, Yasmin
dc.contributor.authorToussaint, Laura
dc.contributor.authorDahl, Olav
dc.contributor.authorStokkevåg, Camilla Hanquist
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-31T11:41:29Z
dc.date.available2021-05-31T11:41:29Z
dc.date.created2020-10-09T20:30:16Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.PublishedAdvances in Radiation Oncology. 2020, 1-9.
dc.identifier.issn2452-1094
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2757065
dc.description.abstractPurpose During radiation therapy for pediatric brain tumors, the brainstem is a critical organ at risk, possibly with different radio-sensitivity across its substructures. In proton therapy, treatment planning is currently performed using a constant relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of 1.1 (RBE1.1), whereas preclinical studies point toward spatial variability of this factor. To shed light on this biological uncertainty, we investigated the spatial agreement between isodose maps produced by different RBE models, with emphasis on (smaller) substructures of the brainstem. Methods and Materials Proton plans were recalculated using Monte Carlo simulations in 3 anonymized pediatric patients with brain tumors (a craniopharyngioma, a low-grade glioma, and a posterior fossa ependymoma) to obtain dose and linear energy transfer distributions. Doses and volume metrics for the brainstem and its substructures were calculated using a constant RBE1.1, 4 phenomenological RBE models with varying (α/β)x parameters, and with a simpler linear energy transfer-dependent model. The spatial agreement between the dose distributions of constant RBE1.1 versus the variable RBE models was compared using the Dice similarity coefficient. Results The spatial agreement between the variable RBE dose distributions and RBE1.1 decreased with increasing isodose levels in all patient cases. The patient with ependymoma showed the greatest variation in dose and dose volumes, where V50Gy(RBE) in the brainstem increased from 32% (RBE1.1) to 35% to 49% depending on the applied model, corresponding to a spatial agreement (Dice similarity coefficient) between 0.79 and 0.95. The remaining patients showed similar trends, however, with lower absolute values due to lower brainstem doses. Conclusions All phenomenological RBE models fully enclosed the isodose volumes of the constant RBE1.1, and the volumes based on variable RBE spatially agreed. The spatial agreement was dependent on the isodose level, where higher isodose levels showed larger expansions and less agreement between the variable RBE models and RBE1.1.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleSpatial Agreement of Brainstem Dose Distributions Depending on Biological Model in Proton Therapy for Pediatric Brain Tumorsen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s).en_US
dc.source.articlenumber100551en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.adro.2020.08.008
dc.identifier.cristin1838591
dc.source.journalAdvances in Radiation Oncologyen_US
dc.identifier.citationAdvances in Radiation Oncology. 2021, 6 (1), 100551.en_US
dc.source.volume6en_US
dc.source.issue1en_US


Tilhørende fil(er)

Thumbnail

Denne innførselen finnes i følgende samling(er)

Vis enkel innførsel

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal
Med mindre annet er angitt, så er denne innførselen lisensiert som Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal