ArticleJournal of applied clinical medical physics2026
Method for simultaneous selection of treatment isocenters and margins for polymetastatic extracranial stereotactic ablative radiotherapy.
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backgroundStereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) represents a new era of treatment for polymetastatic extracranial disease but introduces unique challenges in isocenter selection and margin optimization to balance treatment efficiency and normal tissue sparing. PURPOSE: Develop an end-to-end method to simultaneously cluster M tumor targets and optimize isocenter number (N) and position to minimize the additional margins required to maintain target coverage as tumor-to-isocenter distance increases.
methodsK-means clustering identified candidate isocenters ranging from one to one per target. Margins required for 95% coverage probability were determined based on tumor-to-isocenter distance, accounting for translational (5 mm) and rotational (1°, 2°, 3°) uncertainties modeled as three-dimensional normal distributions. K-means total margin volume was compared versus isotropic 5- and 10-mm margins and benchmarked against a derivative-free hybrid optimization method. The method was evaluated on 20 clinical lung cases with 2-21 targets per patient, target-to-target distances of 3.8-32.4 cm, and volumes of 0.07-41.05 cm
resultsThe total margin volume determined by k-means showed no significant differences (p = 0.94) relative to the hybrid optimization method, with median differences of 0.03% (0.01 cm
conclusionK-means clustering offers an efficient method for selecting the number and locations of isocenters to reduce the total margin volume in multi-target extracranial SABR.
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