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Predicting Radiation Therapy Induced Ventilation Changes Using 4DCT Jacobian Calculations


T Patton

T Patton1*, K Du1 , G Christensen2 , J Reinhardt2 , J Bayouth1 , (1) University of Wisconsin Madison ,Madison, WI, (2) University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

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TU-G-BRA-3 (Tuesday, July 14, 2015) 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Room: Ballroom A


Purpose: Longitudinal changes in lung ventilation following radiation therapy can be mapped using four-dimensional computed tomography(4DCT) and image registration. This study aimed to predict ventilation changes caused by radiation therapy(RT) as a function of pre-RT ventilation and delivered dose.

Methods: 4DCT images were acquired before and 3 months after radiation therapy for 13 subjects. Jacobian ventilation maps were calculated from the 4DCT images, warped to a common coordinate system, and a Jacobian ratio map was computed voxel-by-voxel as the ratio of post-RT to pre-RT Jacobian calculations. A leave-one-out method was used to build a response model for each subject: post-RT to pre-RT Jacobian ratio data and dose distributions of 12 subjects were applied to the subject’s pre-RT Jacobian map to predict the post-RT Jacobian. The predicted Jacobian map was compared to the actual post-RT Jacobian map to evaluate efficacy. Within this cohort, 8 subjects had repeat pre-RT scans that were compared as a reference for no ventilation change. Maps were compared using gamma pass rate criteria of 2mm distance-to-agreement and 6% ventilation difference. Gamma pass rates were compared using paired t-tests to determine significant differences. Further analysis masked non-radiation induced changes by excluding voxels below specified dose thresholds.

Results: Visual inspection demonstrates the predicted post-RT ventilation map is similar to the actual map in magnitude and distribution. Quantitatively, the percentage of voxels in agreement when excluding voxels receiving below specified doses are: 74%/20Gy, 73%/10Gy, 73%/5Gy, and 71%/0Gy. By comparison, repeat scans produced 73% of voxels within the 6%/2mm criteria. The agreement of the actual post-RT maps with the predicted maps was significantly better than agreement with pre-RT maps (p<0.02).

Conclusion: This work validates that significant changes to ventilation post-RT can be predicted. The differences between the predicted and actual outcome are similar to differences between repeat scans with equivalent ventilation.

Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: This work was supported by NIH grant CA166703 and a Pilot Grant from University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine


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