@inproceedings{cdb3bd47a8364904b180a777161dfeb4,
title = "The impact of metal artifacts on IMRT dose distributions in TCP and NTCP",
abstract = "Purpose: To investigate the effects of distorted head-and-neck (H&N) IMRT dose distributions (hot and cold spots) on normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) and tumor control probability (TCP) due to dental-metal artifacts. Methods: Five patients{\textquoteright} IMRT treatment plans have been analyzed, employing five different planning image data-sets: (a) uncorrected (UC); (b) homogeneous uncorrected (HUC); (c) sinogram completion corrected (SCC); (d) minimum-valuecorrected (MVC); and (e) streak-artifact-reduction including minimum-value-correction (SAR-MVC), that has been taken as the reference data set. The effects on NTCP and TCP were evaluated using the Lyman-NTCP model and the Logistic TCP model, respectively. Results: When compared to the predicted NTCP using the reference data set, the treatment plan based on the original CT data-set (UC) yielded an increase of 3.2% and 2.0% in NTCP for the spared parotid gland and the spinal cord. While the treatment plans based on the MVC CT data set NTCP increased by 1.1% and 0.1% for the spared parotid and the spinal cord. In addition, the MVC correction method showed reduced ΔTCP (MVC: 0.6% vs. UC: 1.3%) with respect to that of the reference CT data set. Conclusion: Our results indicate that the presence of dental- metal-artifacts in H&N planning CT data sets has an impact on the estimates of TCP and NTCP. In particular dentalmetal- artifacts lead to an increase in NTCP for the spared parotid and a slight decrease in TCP for TV.",
keywords = "Head and neck, Metal artifacts, NTCP, TCP, Treatment planning",
author = "Yusung Kim and Tom{\'e}, {Wolfgang A.}",
year = "2007",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_433",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783540368397",
series = "IFMBE Proceedings",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "1",
pages = "1750--1753",
editor = "Kim, {Sun I.} and Suh, {Tae Suk}",
booktitle = "IFMBE Proceedings",
edition = "1",
note = "10th World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, WC 2006 ; Conference date: 27-08-2006 Through 01-09-2006",
}