Assessment of dose to vaginal mucosa for gynecologic template interstitial high-dose-rate brachytherapy using Monte Carlo simulation.

brachytherapy dosimetry calculations gynecologic cancers interstitial radiotherapy

Journal

Journal of contemporary brachytherapy
ISSN: 1689-832X
Titre abrégé: J Contemp Brachytherapy
Pays: Poland
ID NLM: 101506276

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Historique:
received: 01 06 2023
accepted: 19 09 2023
medline: 29 11 2023
pubmed: 29 11 2023
entrez: 29 11 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

This study investigated reliable vaginal mucosa dose-volume histogram (DVH) metrics in gynecologic template interstitial high-dose-rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT) for the purpose of standardized dose reporting. Gynecologic template (Syed/Neblett) interstitial HDR-BT patients treated from September 2016 to November 2022 at the study institute were included in the cohort. Each patient implant included a vaginal mucosa contour defined by a 5 mm expansion from vaginal cylinder, then another volume with clinical target volume subtracted. DVH metrics were investigated between D The patient cohort included 61 patients with clinical plans using conventional homogeneous dose calculation (TG43). Heterogeneous vs. water MC dose differences were between -1.1% and -1.4% for all metrics investigated. DVH metrics D For perineal template gynecologic HDR-BT procedures, the 2 cc volume is the smallest representative volume that reliably reports vaginal dose and at minimum should be reported to establish dose and outcome evaluation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38026077
doi: 10.5114/jcb.2023.131781
pii: 51575
pmc: PMC10669914
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

317-324

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 Termedia.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Authors Roumeliotis and Meyer have ownership interest in Okolo Health, a brachytherapy company. The other authors report no conflict of interest. Supplementary material is available on the journal’s website.

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Auteurs

Devin Van Elburg (DV)

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada.
Medical Physics Department, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary AB, Canada.

Tyler Meyer (T)

Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada.
Medical Physics Department, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary AB, Canada.
Department of Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada.

Kevin Martell (K)

Department of Oncology, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary AB, Canada.

Sarah Quirk (S)

Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Michael Roumeliotis (M)

Department of Radiation Oncology & Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Institution of research: Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 4N2.

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