WANG Hao, GUO Feng, CHE Ya, REN Yinghong, DING Qi, YANG Yunyi, LI Yi
Objective To explore the change of planning center and its effect on the quality of radiotherapy plan when the deviation between the esophageal cancer positioning center and the target area center in the X(left-right), Y(head-foot), Z(up-down) threedimensional direction is less than ±15 mm in the planning stage. Methods A total of 40 patients receiving dynamic intensity modulated radiotherapy in Shangluo Central Hospital were selected as the study objects. Firstly, The planning target volume (PTV) center was used to design the radiotherapy plan. After the plan optimization was completed, the new radiotherapy plan was designed by shifting the planning center ±5, ±10 and ±15 mm in three directions towards X, Y, Z, and this point was used as the planning center. The feasibility of the plan was assessed using statistical dosimetric parameters. Results There was no statistical significance in target area, organ at risk and plan execution efficiency (P>0.05). Compared with PTV center plan, the variations in maximum dose (Dmax), minimum dose, average dose (Dmean), homogeneity index and conformity index in other groups ranged from -0.15%~0.12%, -0.05%~0.05%, -0.07%~0.09%, -0.09%~0.28%, and -0.36%~0.48%. The maximum deviation of lung doses at V5 (percentage of the volume of the organ receiving 500 cGy dose, and so on), V10, V20, V30 and Dmean were 0.68%, 0.29%, 0.40%, -0.14% and 7.75 cGy. The maximum deviation of heart doses at V10, V20, V30, V40 and Dmean were 0.66%, -0.30%, -0.47%, 0.54% and -14.08 cGy. Maximum deviation of spinal-cord Dmax was 28.98 cGy. The maximum deviations of monitor unit, delivery time and planned optimization time were -34.01 MU, 5.33 s and -6.09 s. Conclusion When the positioning center and the PTV center in the X, Y, Z, direction is less than ±15 mm, the positioning center can be directly used as the planning center to design the radiotherapy plan, so as to reduce the patient’s reset time and the positioning error.