Compensating for tumor motion by a 6-degree-of-freedom treatment couch: is patient tolerance an issue?
| Autor: | Eva Steixner, Peter Lukas, Reinhart A. Sweeney, Meinhard Nevinny-Stickel, Winfried Arnold |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Nausea Vomiting Movement Radiosurgery Stereotactic radiotherapy Motion Physical medicine and rehabilitation medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Tumor motion Aged Radiation business.industry Respiration Healthy subjects Robotics Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Motion sickness Patient tolerance Oncology Tumor tracking Arm medicine.symptom General deterioration business |
| Zdroj: | International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics. 74(1) |
| ISSN: | 1879-355X |
| Popis: | Purpose To determine whether patients could tolerate the motion of a robotic couch that compensates for breathing-induced tumor motion. Methods and Materials A total of 10 healthy subjects and 23 radio-oncology patients underwent simulated extracranial stereotactic radiotherapy (two 30-min sessions) on a robotic couch programmed to follow a fictitious tumor trajectory of 20×5×5 mm (cranio–caudal, left–right, and anterior–posterior directions, respectively) while rotating 2° around a cranio–caudal axis at a frequency of 5 seconds per loop. Results No session had to be interrupted and no nausea was induced. However, one patient refused the second session due to general deterioration and not all patients could keep their arms elevated for the entire session. Conclusions Our findings showed that most patients tolerated compensatory couch motion and that motion sickness should not pose a problem in the investigation of this tumor-tracking method. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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