Maerz, Manuel ; Mittermair, Pia ; Krauss, Andreas ; Koelbl, Oliver ; Dobler, Barbara
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| Dokumentenart: | Artikel |
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| Titel eines Journals oder einer Zeitschrift: | Strahlentherapie und Onkologie |
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| Verlag: | SPRINGER HEIDELBERG |
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| Ort der Veröffentlichung: | HEIDELBERG |
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| Band: | 192 |
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| Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels: | 6 |
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| Seitenbereich: | S. 403-413 |
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| Datum: | 2016 |
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| Institutionen: | Medizin > Lehrstuhl für Strahlentherapie |
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| Identifikationsnummer: | | Wert | Typ |
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| 10.1007/s00066-016-0958-z | DOI |
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| Stichwörter / Keywords: | ARC THERAPY VMAT; CLINICAL-EVALUATION; COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION-THERAPY; FILM DOSIMETRY; RECONSTRUCTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; OPTIMIZATION; IMAGES; WATER; Metal artifact reduction; Metal artifacts; MAR; Dental implants; Dose calculation; Gafchromic; Radiation therapy |
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| Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin |
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| Status: | Veröffentlicht |
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| Begutachtet: | Ja, diese Version wurde begutachtet |
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| An der Universität Regensburg entstanden: | Ja |
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| Dokumenten-ID: | 42146 |
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Zusammenfassung
Purpose Metallic dental implants cause severe streaking artifacts in computed tomography (CT) data, which affect the accuracy of dose calculations in radiation therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the benefit of the metal artifact reduction algorithm iterative metal artifact reduction (iMAR) in terms of correct representation of Hounsfield units (HU) and dose calculation accuracy. ...
Zusammenfassung
Purpose Metallic dental implants cause severe streaking artifacts in computed tomography (CT) data, which affect the accuracy of dose calculations in radiation therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate the benefit of the metal artifact reduction algorithm iterative metal artifact reduction (iMAR) in terms of correct representation of Hounsfield units (HU) and dose calculation accuracy. Materials and methods Heterogeneous phantoms consisting of different types of tissue equivalent material surrounding metallic dental implants were designed. Artifact-containing CT data of the phantoms were corrected using iMAR. Corrected and uncorrected CT data were compared to synthetic CT data to evaluate accuracy of HU reproduction. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans were calculated in Oncentra v4.3 on corrected and uncorrected CT data and compared to Gafchromic T EBT3 films to assess accuracy of dose calculation. Results The use of iMAR increased the accuracy of HU reproduction. The average deviation of HU decreased from 1006 HU to 408 HU in areas including metal and from 283 HU to 33 HU in tissue areas excluding metal. Dose calculation accuracy could be significantly improved for all phantoms and plans: The mean passing rate for gamma evaluation with 3 % dose tolerance and 3 mm distance to agreement increased from 90.6 % to 96.2 % if artifacts were corrected by iMAR. Conclusion The application of iMAR allows metal artifacts to be removed to a great extent which leads to a significant increase in dose calculation accuracy.
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