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Optimization for IMRT (I)- Fundamental Issues
Ping Xia, Ph.D.
University of California-San Francisco
AAPM 2005, course MO-B-T-6E
Fundamental Issues
• How many structures should be contoured?• How to deal with overlapped structures?• What are proper dose constraints?• Beam angle selection - how many beams are
enough?• How good is good enough for an IMRT plan?• How to evaluate IMRT plans? Or how to sell
IMRT plans.
Forward vs. Inverse Planning
• Conventional forward planning mostly depends on geometric relationship between the tumor and nearby sensitive structures.
• Inverse planning is less dependent on the geometric parameters but more on specification of volumes of tumor & sensitive structures, as well as their dose constraints.
“Inverse Planning Is Less Forgiving”
• Only treat specified tumor targets.
• Only spare specified sensitive structures.
Dr. James Purdy
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To know what you want
• Inverse planning requires us to know precisely what to treat and what to spare.
• How to compromise if treatment requirements are conflicting.
Tell Me What you want
• Full dose to the tumor target
• Zero dose to sensitive structures
Impossible !!!!
Talk with Radiation Oncologists
• Know patient specific planning requirements.• Know physician’s wishful thinking.• What to compromise if you can not achieve
planning requirements.• Is uniform dose important?• Most importantly, What is Rx dose and daily
fractional dose.
Target and sensitive structure delineations
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Delineation of target volumes and sensitive structures becomes a very important yet time consuming task in inverse planning because this is a way that we provide spatial information to the optimizer.
Learn Anatomy 101
• It becomes essential for physicists and dosimetrists to know cross sectional anatomy.
• Understand image differences in various imaging modalities - CT, MRI, PET.
Volume Delineations
• How to define target volumes? –totally leave to radiation oncologists.
• How to contour sensitive structures? – also leave to radiation oncologists if you can wait and they have time to do so.
• How many sensitive structures should be contoured?
How many normal structures for H&N Cases?
• About 24 sensitive structures need to be contoured
• Lt & Rt parotid, optic nerves, eyes, lens, inner ears, TMJ ( 12).
• Spinal cord, brain stem, chiasm, brain, temporal lobes, larynx, mandible, tongue, airway, apex lung, neck skin, thyroid (12) …
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How many normal structures for prostate case?
• Rectum, bladder, colon, penile bulb, small bowel, femur heads, pelvic bones.
• Artificial structures – e.g. planning rinds • Determine superior and inferior borders of the
rectum• Determine small bowel contours – only circular
structures, or the entire pelvic cavity.• Should large bowel separate from small bowel?
Rind Structure Used In Prostate Planning
R. Price, et. al. IJROBP Vol. 57, 843–852, 2003
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Differences in Mean Dose to Parotid Glands
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Overlapped Structures
• From optimizer eye view: – Overlapped structures cause ambiguity during
optimization
• From physician eye view:– PTV will overlap with other sensitive structures.– CTV can be some normal tissue – e.g. CTV can be a
part of the lung.
• From physicist eye view: – optimize plan with no overlap structures if possible.– Evaluate plan with overlapped structures
Tumor Margin vs Beam Margin
• What does it mean 1.5 cm block margin
• Beam margin: Beam penumbra ~ 0.7 cm
• Tumor margin: position uncertaintieslocalization uncertainties ~ 0.8 cm
3D Tumor Margin or 2D Tumor Margin
3 mm superior
How many beams and what beam angles?
• For head and neck cancer, in average, 8 beams are sufficient.
• For prostate cancer, five to seven beams are enough
• For breast cancer, two tangential beams are still the best.
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General rules of beam angle selection
• Avoid critical structures
• Choose shortest pathway to irradiate the tumor.
• Keep large beam separation if possible.
• Beam angle selection becomes important if the tumor is not centrally located.
• Depending on the optimizer of each planning system, theses rules may not be applicable.
Brain Tumor
Tolerance doses:� Optic nerves: Max dose < 54Gy
� Lens: Max dose < 6 Gy
� Chiasm: Max dose < 54 Gy
� Brainstem: Max dose < 54 Gy
� Eyes: Max dose < 45 Gy
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Dose Constraints
Dose Constraints
• Inverse planning requires us to specify dose constraints to all structures.
• Inverse IMRT planning becomes a trial-error process in searching for a proper dose constraint specification.
• Improperly specified dose constraints will result in inferior plans
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What are Serial and Parallel Organs ?
• A Serial organ will be damaged if one of its sub-volumes is damaged.
• A parallel organ will lose its functionality only if all sub-volumes of the organ are damaged.
Serial and Parallel Structures in a Typical H&N Case
….Mandible, TMJ
Neck skinTemporal Lobes
Tongue/ oral cavityOptic structures
Inner/middle earsBrain stem
Parotid glandSpinal cord
Parallel StructuresSerial Structures
Dose Tolerance to Some Organs
D 25% <65GyBladder
Max < 70 GyMandibleD20%<65Gy Rectum
Max< 65 GyTemporal Lobe
Mean <30GyLiver
Max <50 GyRetinaMean < 15GyKidney
V45Gy<5%
Or as less as possible
Small BowelV20Gy< 35%
(both lungs)
Lung
DoseOrgansDoseOrgans
Treatment GoalsRx doses:
95 % GTV > 70 Gy at 2.12 Gy95 % PTV > 59.4 Gy at 1.8 Gy
Tolerance doses:Spinal Cord: Max < 45 Gy, 1cc < 45GyBrain Stem: Max < 55 Gy, 1% <54 GyParotid glands: mean dose < 26 Gy,Optic structures: Max < 54 Gy,
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Dose Tolerance of Normal Tissue
• A classical reference for dose tolerance of normal tissue is:
Emami B, et al. “ Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic irradiation”, IJROBP, 1991; 21 (109-122).
• Discuss with your radiation oncologists for their updated dose tolerance to various organs, and special requirement for each specific case.
Systematic Trial-and-Error
• Start with 7-9 beams to find a well balanced dose constraint.– Find the upper limits– Find the lower limits– Find a compromise solutions
• With a well balanced dose constraint, find a set of beam angles that should be clinically deliverable and practical.
70 Gy, 60 Gy, 54 Gy, 45 Gy
Tumor Important
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• Rx 84% to 66 Gy
4 % of GTV underdose,
5% CTV underdose,
• Max-dose to critical structures
RT-eye = 71 Gy, LT-eye =64 Gy
RT-OPN = 66 Gy, LT-OPN = 69 Gy
Brain Stem = 48 Gy
Chiasm = 59 Gy
Tumor Important Critical Structures Important
Critical Structures Important
• Rx 75% to 66 Gy
6 % of GTV underdose,
7% CTV underdose,
• Max-dose to critical structures
RT-eye = 63 Gy, LT-eye =64 Gy
RT-OPN = 51 Gy, LT-OPN = 51 Gy
Brain Stem = 42 Gy
Chiasm = 51 Gy
Final Solution
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Final Solution
• Rx 80% to 66 Gy
6% of GTV underdose,
8% CTV underdose,
• Max-dose to critical structures
RT-eye = 60 Gy, LT-eye =62 Gy
RT-OPN = 55 Gy, LT-OPN = 56 Gy
Brain Stem = 46 Gy
Chiasm = 54 Gy
70 Gy, 60 Gy, 54 Gy, 45 Gy
Equal important
Critical structure
Tumor important
Compromised
How to modify plans that are not acceptable
Check Anatomy
• Clean up tumor volume.• Understand geometry limiting factor – are
there overlapped structures?• Is PTV extended to the outside of skin
surface – limited by most PTS.• Is tumor volume close to the skin surface –
leave 3-5 mm away from the skin surface.
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Plan 1
Plan 2
Plan 1 Limiting factor
Looking for Unreasonable Dose Limits
Plan 2
Balance Between Dose Conformity and Uniformity
Plan Evaluation – How to sell your plan
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Realty and Physics Limitations
• Single beam penumbra ~ 7-8 mm, from 90% - 20% iso-dose lines ~ 10%/mm
• IMRT iso-dose lines are also limited by this radiation physics.
• Scatter dose from multiple beams makes the beam penumbra shallower.
Uniformity Vs Conformity
• Uniformity and conformity are often trade-off with each other.
• A great dose gradient often scarifies dose uniformity
Evaluation of IMRT Plans
• Define endpoints• Dose volume histogram (DVH)
• Dose distributions on every CT slice (Rx, hot spot, cold spot)
PTV70 Scoring
No Variation Minor Variation Major Variation
95% of PTV70 is at, or above 70 Gy, or/and
99% of PTV70 is at, or above 65.1 Gy and
95% of PTV70 is at, or above 65.1 Gy and
No more than 20% of PTV70 is at, or above 77.0 Gy
No more than 5% of PTV70 is at, or above 80.5 Gy
Failure to achieve either No Variation or Minor Variation
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PTV59.4 Scoring
No Variation Minor Variation Major Variation
95% of PTV 59.4 is at, or above 59.4Gy and/or
99% of PTV59.4 is at, or above 55.2 Gy and
95% of PTV59.4 is at, or above 55.2 Gy and
No more than 20% of PTV59.4* is at, or above 77.0 Gy
No more than 5% of PTV59.4* is at, or above 80.5 Gy
Failure to achieve either No Variation or Minor Variation
PTV50.4 Scoring
No Variation Minor Variation Major Variation95% of PTV50.4 is at, or above 50.4 Gy and /or99% of PTV50.4 is at, or above 46.9 Gy and
95% of PTV50.4 is at, or above 46.9 Gy and
No more than 20%of PTV50.4* is at, or above 77.0 Gy
No more than 5% of PTV50.4* is at, or above 80.5 Gy
Failure to achieve either No Variationor Minor Variation
Parotid Scoring
No Variation Minor Variation Major VariationMean dose to either parotid is at or less than 26.0 Gy or
40% of either parotid receives less than, or equal to 30.0 Gy
50% of either parotid receives less than 30.0 Gy or
20 cc of the combined parotid glands receive less than 20.0 Gy
Failure to achieve either No Variationor Minor Variation
Other Organ at Risk
Dose Limit and Criteria
Temporal lobes 60 Gy or 1% of Vol. < 65 Gy
Brainstem*, optic nerves, chiasm*
54 Gy or 1% < 60 Gy
Spinal Cord+ 45Gy or 1 cc of Vol. < 50.0 Gy
Mandible ,T-M Joint 70 Gy or 1cc < 75.0 Gy
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Plan Acceptance Priority
3Mean dose to ears
3Mean dose to Parotid
295% CTV > Rx dose
295% GTV >Rx dose
1Brain Stem < 54 Gy –60 Gy
1Spinal Cord < 45 Gy- 50 Gy
Isodose Distributions
Cold spot
70 Gy,59.4 Gy,45 Gy
Hot-spot
70.0 Gy,59.4 Gy,54 Gy
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6 mm superior
Three Dimensional Examination
70 Gy60 Gy
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Simplify IMRT Plans
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75, 70, 59.4, 45, 35 Gy
25 segments 50 segments 100 segments
75, 70, 59.4, 45, 35 Gy
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25 segments 50 segments 100 segments
75, 70, 59.4, 45, 35 Gy
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Seeking Simple IMRT Plans
• Simple IMRT plans can reduce treatment time.
• Reduce total body dose to patients.
• Reduce potential dosimetric errors with using fewer small fields and small MUs.
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Inverse Planning Tips
• Inverse planning is not intuitive but easy to establish class solution for a specific cancer.
• Learn cross sectional anatomy.• Know the realistic goals, find the upper limit and
lower limits for both dose conformity and uniformity.
Inverse Planning Tips
• Systematically research for compromise solution– Find a proper dose constraints while
starting with 7-9 beam angles– Find a optimal beam angles while
keeping the same dose constraints
• Once you know the upper and lower limits, simplify IMRT plan as much as possible to reduce treatment time, unnecessary radiation…
Acknowledgement
Thai Binh Nguyen
Erica Ludlum, M.S.
Clayton Akazawa, CMD
Jeff Bellerose, B.S.
Lynn Verhey, Ph.D.
All Radiation Oncologists in the Department