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An augmented correlation framework for the estimation of tumour translational and rotational motion during external beam radiotherapy treatments using intermittent monoscopic x-ray imaging and an external respiratory signal
- Source :
- Physics in Medicine & Biology. 63:205003
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2018.
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Abstract
- Increasing evidence shows that intrafraction tumour motion monitoring must include both six degrees of freedom (6DoF): 3D translations and 3D rotations. Existing real-time algorithms for 6DoF target motion estimation require continuous intrafraction fluoroscopic imaging at high frequency, thereby exposing patients to additional high imaging dose. This paper presents the first method capable of 6DoF motion monitoring using intermittent 2D kV imaging and a continuous external respiratory signal. Our approach is to optimise a state-augmented linear correlation model between an external signal and internal 6DoF motion. In standard treatments, the model can be built using information obtained during pre-treatment cone beam CT (CBCT). Real-time 6DoF tumor motion can then be estimated using just the external signal. Intermittent intrafraction kV images are used to update the model parameters, accounting for changes in correlation and baseline shifts. The method was evaluated in silico using data from 6 lung SABR patients, with the internal tumour motion recorded with electromagnetic beacons and the external signal from a bellows belt. Projection images from CBCT (10 Hz) and intermittent kV images were simulated by projecting the 3D Calypso beacon positions onto an imager. IMRT and VMAT treatments were simulated with increasing imaging update intervals: 0.1 s, 1 s, 3 s, 10 s and 30 s. For all the tested clinical scenarios, translational motion estimates with our method had sub-mm accuracy (mean) and precision (standard deviation) while rotational motion estimates were accurate to
- Subjects :
- Cone beam computed tomography
Lung Neoplasms
Rotation
Movement
Image-guided radiotherapy
Translation (geometry)
Signal
Standard deviation
029903 - Medical Physics [FoR]
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
motion management
Motion estimation
Humans
Six degrees of freedom
Computer Simulation
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Computer vision
Physics
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
business.industry
Respiration
Rotation around a fixed axis
Cone-Beam Computed Tomography
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Linear Models
Artificial intelligence
business
Rotation (mathematics)
Algorithms
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13616560
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cb6a29b6c412db39403f42271082b862