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Article Dans Une Revue Chinese Clinical Oncology Année : 2020

Effects of a metallic implant on radiotherapy planning treatment—experience on a human cadaver

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Background: Metallic implants (MIs) complicate radiotherapy planning. Several studies have worked on tissue-equivalent phantoms as experimental models to estimate dose distributions in this context. The application of these results to clinical practice remains disputable because the inhomogeneity of human tissue densities is a difficult factor to integrate into dose calculation software. In this work, we evaluate the impact of human tissue inhomogeneities by assessing the discrepancies between treatment planning system (TPS) dose calculations and measured delivered doses on a human cadaver with hip prostheses. Methods: A total of 143 alanine dosimeters were positioned in contact with the prostheses (bones group), soft tissues (soft tissues group), skin surfaces (skin group) and natural cavities (cavities group) of a human cadaver. The planning target volume (PTV) corresponded to a standard endometrial cancer treatment. The irradiation was performed with 6 MV X-ray tomotherapy at the one fraction-dose of 10 Gy. Results: A total of 140 dosimeters were analyzed. After applying a temperature correction coefficient to the measured doses, the global analysis of all dosimeters showed a significant difference between the calculated doses and the measured doses (P<0.001). For dosimeters of the bones, soft tissues, skin and cavities groups, this difference was also significant (P<0.001 for each group). The mean measured doses were 21.9% lower than the mean calculated doses in the global analysis and 17.0%, 21.2%, 33.0% and 19.0% lower for the bones, soft tissues, skin and cavities groups, respectively. Conclusions: This study showed that the received doses were significantly lower than the calculated doses and suggested the need to improve the understanding of this discrepancy.
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hal-03003197 , version 1 (26-11-2020)

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Clara Le Fèvre, David Brinkert, Inès Menoux, Florent Kuntz, Delphine Antoni, et al.. Effects of a metallic implant on radiotherapy planning treatment—experience on a human cadaver. Chinese Clinical Oncology, 2020, 9 (2), pp.14. ⟨10.21037/cco.2020.01.09⟩. ⟨hal-03003197⟩
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