SU-C-BRF-02: Surface Imaging Based Analysis of Intra-Fraction Motion for Breast Radiotherapy Patients

Purpose: To quantify and characterize intrafraction motion for breast radiotherapy treatments using 3D surface imaging. Methods: Thirty free breathing breast patients were monitored with 3D surface imaging over a total of 831 monitoring sessions. Mean translations and rotations were calculated over each minute, each session, and over all sessions combined. The percentage of each session that the root mean square (RMS) of the linear translations were outside of 2 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm, and 5 mm were determined for each patient. Correlations between mean translations per minute and time and between standard deviation per minute and time were evaluated using Pearson's r value. Results: The mean RMS translation averaged over all patients was 2.63 mm +/- 1.63 mm. The patients spent an average of 52%, 24%, 11%, and 5% of the monitoring time outside of 2 mm, 3 mm, 4 mm, and 5 mm RMS tolerances, respectively. The RMS values averaged over all patients were 2.95 mm +/- 1.67 mm, 3.21 +/- 2.11, and 3.57 mm +/- 2.23 mm over the 5th, 10th, and 15th minutes of monitoring, respectively. The RMS values (r = 0.95, p = 0) and the standard deviations of the RMS values (r = 0.97, p = 0) both showed strong significant correlations with time. Conclusion: The majority of patients treatment time is spent within 5 mm of the isocenter. Patient position tends to drift with increasing time in the session. Treatment length should be considered when determining planning margins. An 8 mm margin on a target volume would account for two standard deviations of motion for a treatment up to 15 minutes in length