Linear energy transfer incorporated intensity modulated proton therapy optimization

被引:77
作者
Cao, Wenhua [1 ]
Khabazian, Azin [2 ]
Yepes, Pablo P. [1 ,3 ]
Lim, Gino [2 ]
Poenisch, Falk [1 ]
Grosshans, David R. [4 ]
Mohan, Radhe [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Dept Radiat Phys, Houston, TX 77030 USA
[2] Univ Houston, Dept Ind Engn, Houston, TX 77204 USA
[3] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[4] Univ Texas MD Anderson Canc Ctr, Dept Radiat Oncol, Houston, TX 77030 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
IMPT; linear energy transfer; optimization; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RADIATION-THERAPY; IMAGING CHANGES; TRACK; MODEL;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6560/aa9a2e
中图分类号
R318 [生物医学工程];
学科分类号
0831 ;
摘要
The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of incorporating linear energy transfer (LET) into the optimization of intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) plans. Because increased LET correlates with increased biological effectiveness of protons, high LETs in target volumes and low LETs in critical structures and normal tissues are preferred in an IMPT plan. However, if not explicitly incorporated into the optimization criteria, different IMPT plans may yield similar physical dose distributions but greatly different LET, specifically dose-averaged LET, distributions. Conventionally, the IMPT optimization criteria (or cost function) only includes dose-based objectives in which the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) is assumed to have a constant value of 1.1. In this study, we added LET-based objectives for maximizing LET in target volumes and minimizing LET in critical structures and normal tissues. Due to the fractional programming nature of the resulting model, we used a variable reformulation approach so that the optimization process is computationally equivalent to conventional IMPT optimization. In this study, five brain tumor patients who had been treated with proton therapy at our institution were selected. Two plans were created for each patient based on the proposed LET-incorporated optimization (LETOpt) and the conventional dose-based optimization (DoseOpt). The optimized plans were compared in terms of both dose (assuming a constant RBE of 1.1 as adopted in clinical practice) and LET. Both optimization approaches were able to generate comparable dose distributions. The LET-incorporated optimization achieved not only pronounced reduction of LET values in critical organs, such as brainstem and optic chiasm, but also increased LET in target volumes, compared to the conventional dose-based optimization. However, on occasion, there was a need to tradeoff the acceptability of dose and LET distributions. Our conclusion is that the inclusion of LET-dependent criteria in the IMPT optimization could lead to similar dose distributions as the conventional optimization but superior LET distributions in target volumes and normal tissues. This may have substantial advantages in improving tumor control and reducing normal tissue toxicities.
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