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Radiotherapy Optimization techniques Hadrontherapy Treatment planning ANCOD++ Perspectives

Radiotherapy, hadrontherapy and treatment planning systems. Faiza Bourhaleb INFN-Torino University Med 1er-Morocco. Radiotherapy Optimization techniques Hadrontherapy Treatment planning ANCOD++ Perspectives. NURT-Havana 25 October 2001. Radiotherapy, the history:.

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Radiotherapy Optimization techniques Hadrontherapy Treatment planning ANCOD++ Perspectives

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  1. Radiotherapy, hadrontherapy and treatment planning systems.Faiza Bourhaleb INFN-TorinoUniversity Med 1er-Morocco • Radiotherapy • Optimization techniques • Hadrontherapy • Treatment planning • ANCOD++ • Perspectives NURT-Havana 25 October 2001

  2. Radiotherapy, the history: • RT as an inter-disciplinary technique. • Conventional RT !!??No: Too many error sources due to • a large rectangularly shaped fields • bad definition of tager volume to irradiate. • Since 1973, conformational RT. • The Intensity Modulated RT birth => MLC

  3. Optimization and treatment planning • Patient steps before treatment • CT and 3D definition of the global volume for treatment. • Doctors prescription. • Planning of the treatment? • Optimizing a TP • Forward planning • Monte Carlo simulation • Inverse planning • ANCOD++ !??

  4. Why we should think to some thing else!!! • The solution is it an inverse planning, and what about optimizationof beam intensities. • The beams intensities are the unique free parameter.

  5. Inverse planning: • Asking help from mathematics and numerical calculation • Big variety of algorithm already exciting: • Conjugate Gradient minimization. • Quasi Newton minimization. • Simulated annealing minimization. All to resolve a simple linear system:

  6. Particularities of hadrontherapy. • Physical properties of protons and carbon ions

  7. Biological properties • Double strand break • Lethal event  Alpha particles Carbon ions

  8. Relative biological efficiency: For the same biological effect show that we need much less dose delivering. Possibility of cell repair decrease in a considerable way.

  9. Treatment planning in hadrontherapy. • Patient information: • Anatomy • CT images for treatment • Doctors prescriptions considering devices limitations for the treatment. • Optimization technique: • Mathematic algorithm • 2D or 3D optimization! • Display of final 3D dose distribution and notion of DVH.

  10. Voxel scan technique adopted:

  11. ANCOD++ description VOXEL CT Target Accelerator Field Energy Optimize Dose

  12. ANCOD++, results Dose 100 40 X

  13. DVH inside target • DVH outside target • NB:comparison with IMRT ? Volume% Dose%

  14. Comparison: IMRT Protons Between eyes Abdomen Brain

  15. ANCOD++ and GEANT3 simulation • ANCOD++ • GEANT 3

  16. The future !!?? Hadrontherapy has a big chance to be the therapy of the future since it has really minimum possible side effects, sparing as no other technique can do the organs at risk. It adopts the newest techniques of treatment planning, optimizing time and in that way money also. It is now a technique a bit expensive comparing with therapies with photon or electrons but like all the new technologies at the beginning the precision costs a lot but then the expenses decrease quickly with time.

  17. Thanks!!

  18. Revolution and era of Conformational RT: • Blocks • Filters • Wedges • Compensators • Collimators….. scatterer Ridge filter Filter degrader Ridge filter Bolus First collimator Bolus Final collimator Final collimator Body Cancer

  19. The IMRT birth => MLC. • Gantry with an DMLC • The Multivane Intensity modulating Collimator (MIMIC).

  20. Iterative method used in our software. Dose required in a specific voxel is changed in each iteration for the new one with correction. We start considering the supervising weight the one of the beam steered in the actual voxel to have the Bragg peak there and so the maximun of energy deposition. However it is necessary to iterate many times to join the compromise between different beams to respond the best to our requirements and prescriptions.

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