2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Patient set-up method based on dose distribution during a course of radiotherapy
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26670295
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Medical Physics and Radiological Technology
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 適応放射線治療 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the treatment planning of radiation therapy, dose distribution is calculated using the CT images taken before treatment. In this process, beam parameters such as the irradiation direction and irradiation field shape are optimized. In order to realize the optimized dose distribution in a daily treatment, the patient set-up are performed based on the image registration between the X-ray image taken at the treatment time and the CT image used in the planning time. However, since a human body is not rigid object, there is no guarantee that the coincidence of the image is the same as the coincidence of the dose distribution. In this study, we investigated a method to improve the dose distribution by adjusting the dose parameters at each treatment time based on the dose calculation using CT images acquired at each treatment time, and clarified the degree of improvement which can be achieved by this method.
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| Free Research Field |
放射線治療物理学
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