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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2024

Treatment accuracy of standard linear accelerator-based prostate SBRT: the delivered dose assessment of patients treated within two major clinical trials using an in-house position monitoring system.

Sankar Arumugam, Tony Young, Catherine Jones, David Pryor, Mark Sidhom

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Sankar ArumugamDepartment of Medical Physics, Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres and Ingham Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Tony YoungDepartment of Medical Physics, Liverpool and Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centres and Ingham Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Catherine JonesDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
David PryorDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Mark SidhomSouth Western Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Abstract

Background and purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the dosimetric improvements achieved in prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) treatment within the PROMETHEUS and NINJA trials using an in-house real-time position monitoring system, SeedTracker. Methods and materials: This study considered a total of 127 prostate SBRT patients treated in the PROMETHEUS (ACTRN12615000223538) and NINJA (ACTRN12618001806257) clinical trials. The SeedTracker position monitoring system was utilized for real-time position monitoring with a 3-mm position tolerance. The doses delivered to the clinical target volume (CTV), rectum, and bladder were assessed by incorporating the actual target position during treatment. The dose that would have been delivered without monitoring was also assessed by incorporating the observed position deviations. Results: Treatment with position corrections resulted in a mean (range) CTV D99 difference of -0.3 (-1.0 to 0.0) Gy between the planned and delivered dose. Without corrections, this difference would have been -0.6 (-3.7 to 0.0) Gy. Not correcting for position deviations resulted in a statistically significant difference between the planned and delivered CTV D99 ( Conclusions: SeedTracker improved clinical dose volume compliance in prostate SBRT. Without monitoring and corrections, delivered dose would significantly differ from the planned dose.

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delivered dose assessmentintrafraction motiononline monitoringprostate SBRTprotocol compliance

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PMID39184052
PMCPMC11341385

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