Adaptive CT Acquisition for Personalised Thoracic Imaging

University of Sydney30 enrolled

Overview

In this trial, Respiratory Motion Guided (RMG) 4DCBCT will be implemented for the first time on lung cancer patients. RMG-4DCBCT adapts the image acquisition as the patient's breathing changes (i.e. if the patient breathes faster, imaging data is acquired faster). By adapting the acquisition to the dynamic patient, personalised images of a patients lungs are able to be acquired for radiotherapy treatments.

Four dimensional cone beam computed tomography (4DCBCT) continues to play a pivotal role in the safe delivery of radiotherapy treatments for lung cancer patients. 4DCBCT meets exacting tumour localisation requirements by allowing radiation therapists to measure the tumour as a patient breathes (4D=volumetric images plus respiratory induced tumour motion). Despite the success of 4DCBCT to date, it suffers from relatively poor image quality, very long scan times (4min) and higher imaging doses than are necessary. The primary reason for these problems is that although the purpose of 4DCBCT is to acquire information about tumour motion due to respiration, there is no feedback from the patients breathing signal to adapt and optimise the image acquisition process. This clinical trial is a phase 1 first in human's pilot study and the aim is therefore to prove feasibility of RMG-4DCBCT, not necessarily efficacy. As such, patient scans will be acquired across a broad range of patient breathing conditions to optimise the RMG-4DCBCT technique and also to plan a hypothesis driven clinical trial to follow.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Cancer, Lung

Interventions

4DCBCT imagesDEVICE

Images are acquired and assessed offline

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Have the ability to give informed consent * A diagnosis of lung cancer with an indication for radiotherapy either curative or palliative * Radiotherapy treatment involving the routine acquisition of CBCT for patient setup provided that 4DCBCT is to be acquired during the course of treatment. * At least two radiotherapy fractions during the course of treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women. * Patient who in the opinion of the treating physician could not tolerate the extra time on the treatment couch for two days of treatment.

Locations (1)

Liverpool Hospital

Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

RMG-4DCBCT image guidance is feasible for lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy

This will be achieved by performing (offline) analysis of the RMG-4DCBCT images obtained and scoring them on a scale of one (excellent quality for image guidance) to three (unsuitable for image guidance).

Time frame: 2 years

Secondary Outcomes

To measure the extent of association between image quality and the patients' breathing conditions.

Using RMG-4DCBCT scans acquired across a broad range of patients for the first time we will determine if there is a link between image quality and the patients' breathing conditions. This information will be used to improve the prototype.

Time frame: 2 years

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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