Curtis Woodford et al 2007 Phys. Med. Biol. 52 N185 doi:10.1088/0031-9155/52/8/N04
Curtis Woodford, Slav Yartsev and Jake Van Dyk
Show affiliationsThis study aims to determine the settings that provide the optimal clinical accuracy and consistency for the registration of megavoltage CT (MVCT) with planning kilovoltage CT image sets on the Hi-ART tomotherapy system. The systematic offset between the MVCT and the planning kVCT was determined by registration of multiple MVCT scans of a head phantom aligned with the planning isocentre. Residual error vector lengths and components were used to quantify the alignment quality for the phantom shifted by 5 mm in different directions obtained by all 27 possible combinations of MVCT inter-slice spacing, registration techniques and resolution. MVCT scans with normal slices are superior to coarse slices for registration of shifts in the superior–inferior, lateral and anterior–posterior directions. Decreasing the scan length has no detrimental effect on registration accuracy as long as the scan lengths are larger than 24 mm. In the case of bone technique and fine resolution, normal and fine MVCT scan slice spacing options give similar accuracy, so normal mode is preferable due to shorter procedure and less delivered dose required for patient set-up. A superior–inferior field length of 24–30 mm, normal slice spacing, bone technique, and fine resolution is the optimum set of registration settings for MVCT scans of a Rando head phantom acquired with the Hi-ART tomotherapy system, provided the registration shifts are less than 5 mm.
Issue 8 (21 April 2007)
Received 7 September 2006, in final form 9 February 2007
Published 27 March 2007
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