Patterns of practice for adaptive and real-time radiation therapy (POP-ART RT) part I: Intra-fraction breathing motion management
•Real-time respiratory motion management (RRMM) practice, evaluated for 200 centres.•Sixty-eight percent of respondents used RRMM for at least one tumour site.•Across all tumour sites, external marker was the main RRMM signal used.•Overall 71% of respondents wished to implement RRMM for a new treatm...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Radiotherapy and oncology 2020-12, Vol.153, p.79-87 |
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Zusammenfassung: | •Real-time respiratory motion management (RRMM) practice, evaluated for 200 centres.•Sixty-eight percent of respondents used RRMM for at least one tumour site.•Across all tumour sites, external marker was the main RRMM signal used.•Overall 71% of respondents wished to implement RRMM for a new treatment site.•The main barriers were human/financial resources and capacity on the machine.
The POP-ART RT study aims to determine to what extent and how intra-fractional real-time respiratory motion management (RRMM) and plan adaptation for inter-fractional anatomical changes (ART), are used in clinical practice and to understand barriers to implementation. Here we report on part I: RRMM.
A questionnaire was distributed worldwide to assess current clinical practice, wishes for expansion or new implementation and barriers to implementation.
RRMM was defined as inspiration/expiration gating in free-breathing or breath-hold, or tracking where the target and the beam are continuously realigned.
The questionnaire was completed by 200 centres from 41 countries. RRMM was used by 68% of respondents (‘users’) for a median (range) of 2 (1–6) tumour sites.
Eighty-one percent of users applied inspiration breath-hold in at least one tumour site (breast: 96%). External marker was used to guide RRMM by 61% of users. KV/MV imaging was frequently used for liver and pancreas (with fiducials) and for lung (with or without fiducials). Tracking was mainly performed on robotic linacs with hybrid internal-external monitoring.
For breast and lung, approximately 75% of respondents used or wished to implement RRMM, which was lower for liver (44%) and pancreas (27%). Seventy-one percent of respondents wished to implement RRMM for a new tumour site. Main barriers were human/financial resources and capacity on the machine.
Sixty-eight percent of respondents used RRMM and 71% wished to implement RRMM for a new tumour site. The main barriers to implementation were human/financial resources and capacity on treatment machines. |
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ISSN: | 0167-8140 1879-0887 1879-0887 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.06.018 |