Correlation of normal lung density changes with dose after stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for early stage lung cancer

Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology
Karine A Al FeghaliIndrin J Chetty

Abstract

To investigate the correlation between normal lung CT density changes with dose accuracy and outcome after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with early stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Thirty-one patients (with a total of 33 lesions) with non-small cell lung cancer were selected out of 270 patients treated with SBRT at a single institution between 2003 and 2009. Out of these 31 patients, 10 patients had developed radiation pneumonitis (RP). Dose distributions originally planned using a 1-D pencil beam-based dose algorithm were retrospectively recomputed using different algorithms. Prescription dose was 48 Gy in 4 fractions in most patients. Planning CT images were rigidly registered to follow-up CT datasets at 3-9 months after treatment. Corresponding dose distributions were mapped from planning to follow-up CT images. Hounsfield Unit (HU) changes in lung density in individual, 5 Gy, dose bins from 5 to 45 Gy were assessed in the peri-tumoral region. Correlations between HU changes in various normal lung regions, dose indices (V20, MLD, generalized equivalent uniform dose (gEUD)), and RP grade were investigated. Strong positive correlation was found between HU changes in the peri-tumoral region an...Continue Reading

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