A novel tool for assessing the correlation of internal/external markers during SGRT guided stereotactic ablative radiotherapy treatments.

An in-house developed tool was implemented and validated to investigate the skin surface, hepatic dome, and target displacement for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) of thoracic/abdominal lesions using a Surface Guided Radiation Therapy (SGRT) system combined with 4D- images. Fourteen consecutive patients with tumors near the hepatic dome undergoing SABR treatments were analyzed. For each patient, a planning 4D-CT and five 4D-CBCT images were acquired. The C-RAD technology was also used to register/monitor the position of the skin reference point (SRP) as an external marker representative of patient breathing. The 4D images were imported in the developed tool, and the absolute maximum height (P There was a strong correlation between the skin motion amplitude based on 4D-CBCT and the C-RAD in all the patients (0.90 ± 0.08). Similarly, the mean ± SD of Pearson correlation coefficients of skin and P The strong correlation between the tumor/ hepatic dome and skin displacements confirms that the SGRT approach can be considered appropriate for intra- and inter-fraction motion management in SABR therapy.

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