TY - JOUR AU - Janjumrat, Pongsakorn AU - Phattharakitbouaunkun, Phattharaphon AU - Sanghangthum, Taweap PY - 2021/09/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Accuracy of automatic image registration software for image guided radiotherapy JF - The Thai Journal of Radiological Technology JA - Thai J Rad Tech VL - 46 IS - 1 SE - Original articles DO - UR - https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tjrt/article/view/251179 SP - 16-25 AB - <p>Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) is a method used the imaging in treatment room to validate patient positioning before treatment. The image registration software is used to find the patient position uncertainties. This research aimed to determine the accuracy of the automatic image registration software of using MV-EPID, kV-OBI, and kV-CBCT to determine the location of patients and cancerous lumps before irradiation. The head, chest, and pelvic regions of anthropomorphic phantom was scanned by CT-simulator. The phantom was set again in treatment room.&nbsp; The treatment couch was moved in vertical, longitudinal, and lateral directions in each axis and all three axes with the known couch shifted of 1, 3, 5, 10 and 20 mm, and then the three IGRT types were performed. The auto shifted software was applied to find the couch shifted. The deviations from auto shifted software and known couch shifted were reported and calculated for mean and SD. The results showed that kV-CBCT data presented the highest accuracy with a mean of shifted error within ±1 mm in all regions and all directions and the overall mean of shifted error values ​​of the head, thorax, and pelvic regions were 0.0±0.8 mm, 0.2±0.6 mm, and 0.1±0.4 mm, respectively. The MV-EPID data presented secondary accuracy with a mean of shifted error of less than ±1.5 mm and the overall mean of error shifted values ​​of the head, thorax, and pelvic regions were -0.1±0.5 mm, -0.3±1.8 mm, and 0.2±0.6 mm, respectively. The kV-OBI presented the least accurate with a mean of shifted error of less than ±2 mm and an overall mean of shifted error values ​​of the head, thorax, and pelvic regions at 0.0±0.9 mm, -0.6±1.6 mm, and -0.9±1.3 mm, respectively. However, the use of MV-EPID and kV-OBI automatic image registration software was incorrected when the large couch shifted was set. Moreover, the automatic registration software was limited in MV-EPID when the large couch shifted was applied.</p> ER -