Basics of Proton Therapy. Proton Treatment Planning and Beam Optimization
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1 Basics of Proton Therapy Proton Treatment Planning and Beam Optimization SAM Educational Session, WE D BRB 2 Mark Pankuch, PhD Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center
2 Today s objectives Review the concepts of CTV / ITV / PTV when treating with protons Discuss the general planning parameters used in proton planning Present Aperture / Compensator, forward based, treatment planning methods Discuss the methods and clinical benefits of Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT)
3 ICRU Definitions Patient CTV GTV ITV
4 ICRU Definitions Patient ITV PTV = ITV + SM
5 ICRU Definitions Patient ITV PTV = ITV + SM
6 ICRU Definitions Patient ITV PTV = ITV + SM
7 So. Distal margins of Protons fields need to consider potential path length differences (Smearing and Robustness) But are there other considerations for the distal edge margins?? What about Proton Range Uncertainties??
8 Where do range uncertainties come from and how big are they?? It depends on who you ask Paganetti, Phys. Med Biol (57), 2012
9 Moyers : Ion Stopping Powers and CT Numbers Moyers, Medical Dosimetry(35), 2010
10 Yang : Comprehensive analysis of proton range uncertainties related to patient stopping power ratio estimation using the stoichiometric calibration Yang, Phys. Med. Biol, (57) 2012
11 Paganetti : Range uncertainties in proton therapy and the role of Monte Carlo simulations Paganetti, Phys. Med Biol (57), 2012
12 Setup and Range Uncertainty with Protons : Field Specific Margins Perpendicular Expansion Avoid a geometric miss Physical Distance (cm) Parallel Expansion Avoid a range miss Radiobiological Depth (Water Equiv. Thickness)
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15 CT is the Patient Map : Areas of Specific Concern for Protons Conversion from HU to RSP has inherent problems Noise Beam hardening Trying to make our CT scanner a spectrometer Two tissues can have same HU but different RSP Anything not natural can have large errors. Contrast Fillings Implants
16 Chestwall Expander
17 Breast Prosthesis Moyers et.al Med Dosim Spring;39(1):
18 Is there any hope for improvements? Dual Energy CT (kv / MVCT) Proton activation (PET/SPECT) Tomography Prompt Gamma verification Proton Radiography Proton Tomography
19 Treatment Planning Methods depend on Proton Delivery Methods Double Scatter (DS) Uniform Scanning (US) Aperture / Compensator Based Planning Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) Inversed planned proton spot intensity optimization 19
20 Aperture / Compensator based Planning Strategies Cover the target with appropriate margins Spare the critical structures Plan with fields that deliver the most robust plan
21 Tools to do our job Range : The depth of the Bragg peak (Distal 90%) Modulation : The spread of the Bragg peak Apertures : Shaping the beam perpendicular to the path Compensators : Distal Shaping
22 The Physics of Protons Spread Out Bragg Peak (SOBP) Relative Dose Healthy Tissue Tumor Depth in Tissue (cm) Healthy Tissue
23 Range and Modulation
24 Spreading the beam across the field 24
25 Patient Specific Devices Aperture
26 Aperture Design
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28 Penumbra at Various Air Gaps 1 2 cm cm cm 20 2 cm cm cm Distance (cm)
29 Penumbra as Mid SOBP at various ranges 1 Penumbra at Various Ranges, mid SOPB (4cm) 0.8 Relative Intensity 0.6 Range 10cm Range 10cm Range 20cm 10cm Range 30cm 30m 20cm Distance (cm)
30 For treatments, the snout is extended to be close to the patient Reduced Air Gap = smaller penumbra 30
31 Compensators for Distal Shaping
32 Target Area Proton Beam Aperture Inhomogeneity (Air Pocket)
33 Compensator Target Area Aperture Inhomogeneity (Air Pocket)
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36 Compensator Target Area Aperture Inhomogeneity (Air Pocket)
37 Compensator Target Area Aperture Inhomogeneity (Air Pocket)
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39 Compensator Target Area Aperture Inhomogeneity (Air Pocket)
40 Smearing Sacrificing distal conformity to ensure you have enough range (and modulation) to cover the target in the case of anticipated misalignments Accounts for the fact that treatment path lengths may be different than planned path lengths due to set up errors and internal motion. Can easily be built into compensator design Is not directly mechanically accounted for in IMPT (No compensator)
41 Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) Layers of spot patterns delivered over the target volume Variable Intensity Control Dose uniformity Simultaneous Intergraded Boost Distal AND Proximal conformity The ability to perform Single Field or Multi Field Optimizations Movie clip from Varian ProBeam :
42 Spot Intensity for SFUD plan BEV of the spot intensity patterns
43 Spot Positions and Intensity Impossible to manually define spot positions and intensities and hope they relate to each other. Inverse planning is required Objective function is defined An iterative process is used to minimize the objective function 43
44 Use of a Compensator for distal shaping
45 Distal conformity using a Compensator No Compensator With Compensator
46 Advantage of PBS : The addition of Proximal Conformity PBS With Compensator
47 IMPT Optimization Methods Single Field Optimization (SFO) Uniform Dose is delivered to the entire target by each field individually Multi Field Optimization (MFO) Spot weights of all fields are optimized together. The spot weight of one field will rely on another field s dose to create an integrated uniform target dose Less sparing of critical structures Better for sparing critical structures Less sensitive to Set up/range errors More sensitive to Set up/range errors
48 Single Field Optimized : (SFO) OAR < 100% of Dose 100% of Dose
49 Multi Field Optimized: (MFO) OAR < 100% of Dose 100% of Dose
50 Single Field Optimized with a systematic range error OAR < 100% of Dose 100% of Dose
51 Multi Field Optimized with a systematic range error OAR < 100% of Dose 100% of Dose
52 A need to Quantify and account for the effects of: Non ideal set up Range uncertainty Intra fraction motion Respiratory motion Inter fraction motion Anatomical consistency
53 Quantify and account for the effects of: Two methods to do this: Prospectively : Robustness Optimization Retrospectively : Robustness Evaluation
54 PBS Robust Optimization Add penalties into the cost function for robustness Allow the planning system to score robustness on a spot to spot basis AND how one spot will effect the overall sensitivity to potential plan degradation. Spots with poor robustness (high sensitivity to plan degradation) will be penalized by iteratively decreasing, and potentially, eliminating their intensity
55 Robustness Evaluation Process of evaluating several potential scenarios to understand potential worse case results Translate and/or rotate individual fields and recalculate Mimic Set up errors Re assign systematically shifted HU conversion curves and recalculate Mimic HU conversion errors Move Target structures and recalculate Mimic Internal Motion and Anatomical Variances
56 Robust Evaluations
57 In Conclusion.. Because the protons stop, the standard planning methods used in photon planning may not be directly applicable. Treatment Planning with proton requires several addition consideration. The proper application of proton planning techniques can generate some very wonderful treatment plans.
58 Thanks You for listening!
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