Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Nick West, Dr Christopher Snowden, Chris Walker
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
© 2018Purpose: Reducing respiratory motion during the delivery of radiation therapy reduces the volume of healthy tissues irradiated and may decrease radiation-induced toxicity. The purpose of this study was to assess the potential for rapid shallow non-invasive mechanical ventilation to reduce internal anatomy motion for radiation therapy purposes. Methods and Materials: Ten healthy volunteers (mean age, 38 years; range, 22-54 years; 6 female and 4 male) were scanned using magnetic resonance imaging during normal breathing and at 2 ventilator-induced frequencies: 20 and 25 breaths per minute for 3 minutes. Sagittal and coronal cinematic data sets, centered over the right diaphragm, were used to measure internal motions across the lung–diaphragm interface. Repeated scans assessed reproducibility. Physiologic parameters and participant experiences were recorded to quantify tolerability and comfort. Results: Physiologic observations and experience questionnaires demonstrated that rapid shallow non-invasive ventilation technique was tolerable and comfortable. Motion analysis of the lung–diaphragm interface demonstrated respiratory amplitudes and variations reduced in all subjects using rapid shallow non-invasive ventilation compared with spontaneous breathing: mean amplitude reductions of 56% and 62% for 20 and 25 breaths per minute, respectively. The largest mean amplitude reductions were found in the posterior of the right lung; 40.0 mm during normal breathing to 15.5 mm (P <.005) and 15.2 mm (P <.005) when ventilated with 20 and 25 breaths per minute, respectively. Motion variations also reduced with ventilation; standard deviations in the posterior lung reduced from 14.8 mm during normal respiration to 4.6 mm and 3.5 mm at 20 and 25 breaths per minute, respectively. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this study is the first to measure internal anatomic motion using rapid shallow mechanical ventilation to regularize and minimize respiratory motion over a period long enough to image and to deliver radiation therapy. Rapid frequency and shallow, non-invasive ventilation both generate large reductions in internal thoracic and abdominal motions, the clinical application of which could be profound—enabling dose escalation (increasing treatment efficacy) or high-dose ablative radiation therapy.
Author(s): West NS, Parkes MJ, Snowden C, Prentis J, McKenna J, Iqbal MS, Cashmore J, Walker C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics
Year: 2019
Volume: 103
Issue: 4
Pages: 1004-1010
Print publication date: 15/03/2019
Online publication date: 26/11/2018
Acceptance date: 19/11/2018
ISSN (print): 0360-3016
ISSN (electronic): 1879-355X
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.11.040
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2018.11.040
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
