Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation leading to 20-minutes breath-hold potentially useful for radiation treatments

Nicolas Audag; Geneviève Van Ooteghem; Giuseppe Liistro; Armand Salini; Xavier Geets; Gregory Reychler

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2019.09.024

Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation leading to 20-minutes breath-hold potentially useful for radiation treatments

Radiother Oncol. 2019 Dec:141:292-295. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2019.09.024. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

Authors

Nicolas Audag¹, Geneviève Van Ooteghem², Giuseppe Liistro³, Armand Salini⁴, Xavier Geets², Gregory Reychler⁵

Affiliations

¹ Pôle de Pneumologie, ORL & Dermatologie (PNEU), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci, PARNASSE-ISEI, Brussels, Belgium; Secteur de kinésithérapie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Molecular Imaging, Radiotherapy and Oncology (MIRO), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Radiation Oncology, Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
³ Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci, PARNASSE-ISEI, Brussels, Belgium.
⁵ Pôle de Pneumologie, ORL & Dermatologie (PNEU), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci, PARNASSE-ISEI, Brussels, Belgium; Secteur de kinésithérapie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium.

PMID: 31668897
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2019.09.024

Abstract

We developed a training protocol based on Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation in order to prolong breath-hold while nearly suppressing the thorax motion. This protocol allowed ten subjects to achieve a 20-minutes-breath-hold, while reducing the residual surface motion to 1 mm around its mean position for more than 95% of the breath-hold duration.

Keywords: Breath-hold; Cancer; Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation; Physiotherapy; Radiotherapy; Tumour.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Breath Holding*
Female
High-Frequency Ventilation / methods*
Humans
Male
Motion
Radiotherapy / methods*