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@ARTICLE{Galeone:353200,
author = {Galeone, Cosimo and Steinsberger, Timo and Donetti, M. and
Martire, Maria Chiara and Milian, F. M. and Sacchi, R. and
Vignati, A. and Volz, Lennart and Durante, Marco and
Giordanengo, S. and Graeff, Christian},
title = {{R}eal-time delivered dose assessment in carbon ion therapy
of moving targets},
journal = {Physics in medicine and biology},
volume = {69},
number = {20},
issn = {0031-9155},
address = {Bristol},
publisher = {IOP Publ.},
reportid = {GSI-2024-00807},
pages = {205001},
year = {2024},
note = {Original content from this work may be used under the terms
of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.Grants:
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant},
abstract = {Objective. Real-time adaptive particle therapy is being
investigated as a means to maximize the treatment delivery
accuracy. To react to dosimetric errors, a system for fast
and reliable verification of the agreement between planned
and delivered doses is essential. This study presents a
clinically feasible, real-time 4D-dose reconstruction
system, synchronized with the treatment delivery and motion
of the patient, which can provide the necessary feedback on
the quality of the delivery.Approach. A GPU-based analytical
dose engine capable of millisecond dose calculation for
carbon ion therapy has been developed and interfaced with
the next generation of the dose delivery system (DDS) in use
at Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO). The
system receives the spot parameters and the motion
information of the patient during the treatment and performs
the reconstruction of the planned and delivered 4D-doses.
After each iso-energy layer, the results are displayed on a
graphical user interface by the end of the spill pause of
the synchrotron, permitting verification against the
reference dose. The framework has been verified
experimentally at CNAO for a lung cancer case based on a
virtual phantom 4DCT. The patient's motion was mimicked by a
moving Ionization Chamber (IC) 2D-array.Mainresults. For the
investigated static and 4D-optimized treatment delivery
cases, real-time dose reconstruction was achieved with an
average pencil beam dose calculation speed up to more than
one order of magnitude smaller than the spot delivery. The
reconstructed doses have been benchmarked against offline
log-file based dose reconstruction with the TRiP98 treatment
planning system, as well as QA measurements with the IC
2D-array, where an average gamma-index passing rate $(3\%/3$
mm) of $99.8\%$ and $98.3\%,$ respectively, were
achieved.Significance. This work provides the first
real-time 4D-dose reconstruction engine for carbon ion
therapy. The framework integration with the CNAO DDS paves
the way for a swift transition to the clinics.},
keywords = {Humans / Radiotherapy Dosage / Heavy Ion Radiotherapy:
methods / Time Factors / Radiotherapy Planning,
Computer-Assisted: methods / Movement / Radiation Dosage /
Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography / Phantoms, Imaging /
Lung Neoplasms: radiotherapy / Radiometry: methods /
adaptive therapy (Other) / moving targets (Other) / particle
therapy (Other) / real-time dose calculation (Other)},
cin = {BIO / BIO@FAIR},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Ds200)BIO-20160831OR354 / I:(DE-Ds200)Coll-FAIR-BIO},
pnm = {633 - Life Sciences – Building Blocks of Life: Structure
and Function (POF4-633) / SUC-GSI-Darmstadt - Strategic
university cooperation GSI-TU Darmstadt (SUC-GSI-DA) /
RAPTOR - Real-time Adaptive Particle Therapy of Cancer
(955956) / DFG project G:(GEPRIS)491382106 -
Open-Access-Publikationskosten / 2025-2027 / GSI
Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (491382106)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-633 / G:(DE-Ds200)SUC-GSI-DA /
G:(EU-Grant)955956 / G:(GEPRIS)491382106},
experiment = {$EXP:(DE-Ds200)no_experiment-20200803$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39299266},
UT = {WOS:001322177000001},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6560/ad7d59},
url = {https://repository.gsi.de/record/353200},
}