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Background: Recent studies suggest strong correlations between Biologically Effective Doses (BED) and single fraction stereotactic radiosurgery treatment outcomes, as demonstrated for vestibular schwannomas (VS), arterio-venous malformations and pituitary adenomas. The BEDs calculated in these studies consider an uniform dose delivery where the spatio-temporal aspects of dose delivery were neglected.
Purpose: The aim of the study is to quantify the discrepancies between the BED values calculated with a simplified model of uniform dose delivery against the more complex model that incorporates the temporo-spatial incrementation of dose delivery and the bi-exponential effect of the sub-lethal damage repair.
Methods: A software tool that computes the BED distributions based on individual isocenter dose matrices extracted from the GammaPlan (Elekta) treatment planning was developed. Two cohorts 5 VS and 5 jugular foramen schwannoma cases of various tumor volumes and isocenter number were utilized to benchmark the method. Their BEDs covering 98% of tumor volumes were compared against those determined with the uniform delivery model.
Results: The BEDs covering 98% of the tumor volumes as calculated with both models show an approximately linear dependency with the treatment time. For all studied cases, the uniform delivery model overestimates the BEDs calculated with the full spatio-temporal delivery model. This discrepancy seems to accentuate with the tumor volume and treatment complexity.
Conclusions: Despite their resemblance, the BED distributions provide a plethora of BED measures more suitable to characterize clinical outcomes than the unique peripheral BED value calculated with the simplified model of uniform dose delivery.
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