数学一级学科Seminar 766
主题:高分辨四维CT图像引导肺癌放射冶疗方法
报告人:吴国荣 研究员(美国北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校)
时间:2013年9月29日(周四)15:30
地点:校本部G309
主办部门:理学院数学系
摘要:
In this talk, I will present my recent work on novel approaches for improving the accuracy of dose delivery in the image-guided lung cancer radiotherapy. Currently, 4D-CT, which is able to provide full lung/tumor motion by acquiring 3D image at each respiratory phase, has been popularly used to determine the margin for radiation fields during the treatment planning. However, due to considerable radiation dose, generally only a free-breathing 3D-CT is acquired at each treatment day for patient setup, which is done by registration with other free-breathing 3D-CT taken at the planning day. However, without knowing the exact tumor motion at the treatment day, the accuracy of patient setup may be limited. Thus, to ensure the targeting of tumor, a large treatment field margin still has to be applied. Although it is well known that a small margin of radiation fields can lead to less treatment complications, the margin cannot be safely reduced without knowing lung/tumor motion at the treatment day. I will describe our work to improve dose delivery in the image-guided lung cancer treatment by innovatively solving the challenging problem of reconstructing the 4D-CT (and further estimating 4D lung/tumor motions) from a single free-breathing 3D-CT acquired at the treatment day. In this way, we can more precisely localize the moving tumor from the reconstructed treatment day 4D-CT.