IPIP: A new approach to inverse planning for HDR brachytherapy by directly optimizing dosimetric indices.

نویسندگان

  • Timmy Siauw
  • Adam Cunha
  • Alper Atamtürk
  • I-Chow Hsu
  • Jean Pouliot
  • Ken Goldberg
چکیده

PURPOSE Many planning methods for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy require an iterative approach. A set of computational parameters are hypothesized that will give a dose plan that meets dosimetric criteria. A dose plan is computed using these parameters, and if any dosimetric criteria are not met, the process is iterated until a suitable dose plan is found. In this way, the dose distribution is controlled by abstract parameters. The purpose of this study is to develop a new approach for HDR brachytherapy by directly optimizing the dose distribution based on dosimetric criteria. METHODS The authors developed inverse planning by integer program (IPIP), an optimization model for computing HDR brachytherapy dose plans and a fast heuristic for it. They used their heuristic to compute dose plans for 20 anonymized prostate cancer image data sets from patients previously treated at their clinic database. Dosimetry was evaluated and compared to dosimetric criteria. RESULTS Dose plans computed from IPIP satisfied all given dosimetric criteria for the target and healthy tissue after a single iteration. The average target coverage was 95%. The average computation time for IPIP was 30.1 s on an Intel(R) Core 2 Duo CPU 1.67 GHz processor with 3 Gib RAM. CONCLUSIONS IPIP is an HDR brachytherapy planning system that directly incorporates dosimetric criteria. The authors have demonstrated that IPIP has clinically acceptable performance for the prostate cases and dosimetric criteria used in this study, in both dosimetry and runtime. Further study is required to determine if IPIP performs well for a more general group of patients and dosimetric criteria, including other cancer sites such as GYN.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medical physics

دوره 38 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011