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Principal Component Analysis-Based Anatomical Motion Models For Use In Adaptive Radiation Therapy Of Head And Neck Cancer Patients, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chetvertkov
Principal Component Analysis-Based Anatomical Motion Models For Use In Adaptive Radiation Therapy Of Head And Neck Cancer Patients, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chetvertkov
Wayne State University Dissertations
Purpose: To develop standard and regularized principal component analysis (PCA) models of anatomical changes from daily cone beam CTs (CBCTs) of head and neck (H&N) patients, assess their potential use in adaptive radiation therapy (ART), and to extract quantitative information for treatment response assessment.
Methods: Planning CT (pCT) images of H&N patients were artificially deformed to create “digital phantom” images, which modeled systematic anatomical changes during Radiation Therapy (RT). Artificial deformations closely mirrored patients’ actual deformations, and were interpolated to generate 35 synthetic CBCTs, representing evolving anatomy over 35 fractions. Deformation vector fields (DVFs) were acquired between pCT and synthetic …