First Experimental Investigation of Simultaneously Tracking Two Independently Moving Targets on an MRI-Linac using Real-Time MRI and MLC Tracking
Abstract
PURPOSE
High quality radiotherapy is challenging in cases where multiple targets with independent motion are simultaneously treated. A real-time tumor tracking system that can simultaneously account for the motion of two targets was developed and characterized.
METHODS
The multitarget tracking system was implemented on an MRI-Linac and utilizes multi-leaf collimator (MLC) tracking to adapt the radiation beam to phantom targets reproducing motion with prostate and lung motion traces. Multitarget tracking consisted of three stages: (1) pre-treatment aperture segmentation where the treatment aperture was divided into segments corresponding to each target, (2) MR imaging where the positions of the two targets were localized and (3) MLC tracking where an updated treatment aperture was calculated. Electronic portal images (EPID) acquired during irradiation were analyzed to characterize geometric uncertainty and tracking latency.
RESULTS
Multitarget MLC tracking effectively accounted for the motion of both targets during treatment. The root-mean square error between the centers of the targets and the centers of the corresponding MLC leaves were reduced from 5.5 mm without tracking to 2.7 mm with tracking for lung motion traces and reduced from 4.2 mm to 1.4 mm for prostate motion traces. The end-to-end latency of tracking was measured to be 328 ± 44 ms.
CONCLUSIONS
We have demonstrated the first experimental implementation of MLC tracking for multiple targets having independent…
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