Feasibility of using post-contrast dual-energy CT for pediatric radiation treatment planning and dose calculation.

The British Journal of Radiology
Ozgur AtesMatthew Krasin

Abstract

When iodinated contrast is administered during CT simulation, standard practice requires a separate non-contrast CT for dose calculation. The objective of this study is to validate our hypothesis that since iodine affects Hounsfield units (HUs) more than electron density (ED), the information from post-contrast dual-layer CT (DLCT) would be sufficient for accurate dose calculation for both photon and proton therapy. 10 pediatric patients with abdominal tumors underwent DLCT scans before and after iodinated contrast administration for radiotherapy planning. Dose distributions with these DLCT-based methods were compared to those with conventional calibration-curve methods that map HU images to ED and stopping-power ratio (SPR) images. For photon plans, conventional and DLCT approaches based on post-contrast scans underestimated the PTV D99 by 0.87 ± 0.70% (p = 0.18) and 0.36 ± 0.31% (p = 0.34), respectively, comparing to their non-contrast optimization plans. Renal iodine concentration was weakly associated with D99 deviation for both conventional (R2 = 0.10) and DLCT (R2 = 0.02) approaches. For proton plans, the clinical target volume D99 errors were 3.67 ± 2.43% (p = 0.0001) and 0.30 ± 0.25% (p = 0.40) for conventional and DLCT...Continue Reading

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