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Evaluations of the setup discrepancy between BrainLAB 6D ExacTrac and cone-beam computed tomography used with the imaging guidance system Novalis-Tx for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery.
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- Evaluation of the setup discrepancy between 6D ExacTrac and cone beam computed tomography in spine stereotactic body radiation therapy.PloS one · 2021Article
- Effect of setup error in the single-isocenter technique on stereotactic radiosurgery for multiple brain metastases.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2020Article
- Patient motion tracking for non-isocentric and non-coplanar treatments via fixed frame-of-reference 3D camera.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2020Article
- The effect of setup uncertainty on optimal dosimetric margin in LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery with dynamic conformal arc technique.Journal of radiosurgery and SBRT · 2019Article
- Clinical commissioning of a new patient positioning system, SyncTraX FX4, for intracranial stereotactic radiotherapy.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2018Article
- ExacTrac X-Ray 6D Imaging During Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy of Spinal and Nonspinal Metastases.Technology in cancer research & treatmentArticle
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to evaluate the setup discrepancy between BrainLAB 6 degree-of-freedom (6D) ExacTrac and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) used with the imaging guidance system Novalis Tx for intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery. We included 107 consecutive patients for whom white stereotactic head frame masks (R408; Clarity Medical Products, Newark, OH) were used to fix the head during intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery, between August 2012 and July 2016. The patients were immobilized in the same state for both the verification image using 6D ExacTrac and online 3D CBCT. In addition, after radiation treatment, registration between the computed tomography simulation images and the CBCT images was performed with offline 6D fusion in an offline review. The root-mean-square of the difference in the translational dimensions between the ExacTrac system and CBCT was <1.01 mm for online matching and <1.10 mm for offline matching. Furthermore, the root-mean-square of the difference in the rotational dimensions between the ExacTrac system and the CBCT were <0.82° for online matching and <0.95° for offline matching. It was concluded that while the discrepancies in residual setup errors between the ExacTrac 6D X-ray and the CBCT were minor, they should not be ignored.
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