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The impact of reference isocentre position on set-up errors in head-and-neck image-guided radiotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2017

Helena Lenko  and
Primož Peterlin
Helena Lenko
Affiliation:
Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Primož Peterlin*
Affiliation:
Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
*
Correspondence to: Primož Peterlin, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Zaloška c. 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tel: +386 1 5879509. E-mail: ppeterlin@onko-i.si
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Abstract

Aim

To examine and quantify set-up errors in patient positioning in head-and-neck radiotherapy and to investigate the impact of the choice of reference isocentre—on the patient neck or patient skull—on the magnitude of set-up errors.

Materials and methods

Set-up position corrections obtained using online kV 2D/2D matching were recorded automatically for every treatment fraction. 3,413 treatment records for 117 patients treated with volumetric modulated arc therapy during 2013 and 2014 on a single treatment machine in our clinic were analysed. In 79 treatment plans the reference isocentre was set to the patient skull, and in 47 to the neck.

Results

Standard deviation of group systematic error in the vertical, longitudinal and lateral direction and the couch rotation were found to be 2·5 mm, 2·1 mm, 1·9 mm and 0·43° (skull) and 2·5 mm, 1·8 mm, 1·7 mm and 0·49° (neck), respectively. Random error of the vertical, longitudinal, lateral and rotational position correction was 1·8 mm, 1·5 mm, 1·6 mm and 0·62° (skull) and 1·9 mm, 1·6 mm, 1·5 mm and 0·60° (neck), respectively. Positional shifts in different directions were found to be uncorrelated.

Conclusions

Neither reference isocentre set-up shows a clear advantage over the other in terms of interfraction set-up error.

Keywords

head-and-neck radiotherapypatient originreference isocentreset-up error
Type
Original Articles
Information
Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 104 - 113
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© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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