Comparison of Single and Multiple Treatment Plans Made in CyberKnife® Radiosurgery System on Phantom
Abstract
While the use of CyberKnife® radiosurgery systems is increasing, the choice of treatment plan is also important. In this study, it was aimed to determine the more advantageous application by comparing the irradiation of all metastases at once and the protocols of irradiation of metastases separately in multiple brain metastases. For this, on an entirely new head phantom; 6 brain metastases and 3 critical organs, including the spinal cord, brain stem, and chiasm, were determined over the spaces where the dosimeters were placed. Computed tomography (CT) images of the head phantom were taken and these 6 tumors and 3 critical organs were drawn (contouring) on the image. In the treatment planning system, the dose we wanted to give was written and irradiation plans were created to be done separately with a single irradiation. Luminescence (OSL) dosimeters with BeO optical excitation were removed from the phantom after each irradiation and the count value obtained from the dosimeter reader device was recorded. Homogeneity index (HI), conformity index (CI), new conformity index (nCI), duration of treatment, and gradient index (GI) values of irradiation at one time and separately were compared. While it was found that irradiation of tumors with a separate treatment plan was more advantageous in terms of conformity index (CI), new conformity index (nCI), homogeneity index (HI), and coverage values, it was seen that a single plan was more suitable in terms of gradient index and duration.
Keywords
CyberKnife System, Radiosurgery, Multiple brain metastases, Conformity, Dose gradient
Supporting Institution
Selçuk University Scientific Research Project Grant
Project Number
BAP (21111004)
Thanks
The authors thank Medical Physics Specialist Mehmet Fazıl ENKAVI and Eng. İsmail Burak KORKUT from PHYSMART
Medikal for their contributions.This research was supported by the Selçuk University. Research Grant, BAP (21111004).This work is part of K. Sözen's doctoral thesis.
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