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Artificial Intelligence for Outcome Modeling in Radiotherapy. Semin Radiat Oncol 2022; 32:351-364. [DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2022.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Jiang L, Lyu Q, Abdelhamid AMH, Hui S, Sheng K. An efficient rectangular optimization method for sparse orthogonal collimator based small animal irradiation. Phys Med Biol 2022; 67:10.1088/1361-6560/ac910b. [PMID: 36084625 PMCID: PMC9595432 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac910b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Objective.Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is widely used in clinical radiotherapy, treating varying malignancies with conformal doses. As the test field for clinical translation, preclinical small animal experiments need to mimic the human radiotherapy condition, including IMRT. However, small animal IMRT is a systematic challenge due to the lack of corresponding hardware and software for miniaturized targets.Approach.The sparse orthogonal collimators (SOC) based on the direct rectangular aperture optimization (RAO) substantially simplified the hardware for miniaturization. This study investigates and evaluates a significantly improved RAO algorithm for complex mouse irradiation using SOC. Because the Kronecker product representation of the rectangular aperture is the main limitation of the computational performance, we reformulated matrix multiplication in the data fidelity term using multiplication with small matrices instead of the Kronecker product of the dose loading matrices. Solving the optimization problem was further accelerated using the Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm (FISTA).Main results.Four mouse cases, including a liver, a brain tumor, a concave U-target, and a complex total marrow irradiation (TMI) case, were included in this study with manually delineated targets and OARs. Seven coplanar-field SOC IMRT (sIMRT) plans were compared with idealistic fluence map based IMRT (iIMRT) plans. For the first three cases with simpler and smaller targets, the differences between sIMRT plans and iIMRT plans in the planning target volumes (PTV) statistics are within 1%. For the TMI case, the sIMRT plans are superior in reducing hot spots (also termedDmax) of PTV, kidneys, lungs, heart, and bowel by 20.5%, 31.5%, 24.67%, 20.13%, and 17.78%, respectively. On average, in four cases in this study, the sIMRT plan conformity is comparable to that of the iIMRT's with lightly increased R50 and Integral Dose by 2.23% and 2.78%.Significance.The significantly improved sIMRT optimization method allows fast plan creation in under 1 min for smaller targets and makes complex TMI planning feasible while achieving comparable dosimetry to idealistic IMRT with fluence map optimization.
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- Lu Jiang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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Hyperpolarized 129Xe Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Functional Avoidance Treatment Planning in Thoracic Radiation Therapy: A Comparison of Ventilation- and Gas Exchange-Guided Treatment Plans. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2021; 111:1044-1057. [PMID: 34265395 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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PURPOSE To present a methodology to use pulmonary gas exchange maps to guide functional avoidance treatment planning in radiation therapy (RT) and evaluate its efficacy compared with ventilation-guided treatment planning. METHODS AND MATERIALS Before receiving conventional RT for non-small cell lung cancer, 11 patients underwent hyperpolarized 129Xe gas exchange magnetic resonance imaging to map the distribution of xenon in its gas phase (ventilation) and transiently bound to red blood cells in the alveolar capillaries (gas exchange). Both ventilation and gas exchange maps were independently used to guide development of new functional avoidance treatment plans for every patient, while adhering to institutional dose-volume constraints for normal tissues and target coverage. Furthermore, dose-volume histogram (DVH)-based reoptimizations of the clinical plan, with reductions in mean lung dose (MLD) equal to the functional avoidance plans, were created to serve as the control group. To evaluate each plan (regardless of type), gas exchange maps, representing end-to-end lung function, were used to calculate gas exchange-weighted MLD (fMLD), gas exchange-weighted volume receiving ≥20 Gy (fV20), and mean dose in the highest gas exchanging 33% and 50% volumes of lung (MLD-f33% and MLD-f50%). Using each clinically approved plan as a baseline, the reductions in functional metrics were compared for ventilation-optimization, gas exchange optimization, and DVH-based reoptimization. Statistical significance was determined using the Freidman test, with subsequent subdivision when indicated by P values less than .10 and post hoc testing with Wilcoxon signed rank tests to determine significant differences (P < .05). Toxicity modeling was performed using an established function-based model to estimate clinical significance of the results. RESULTS Compared with DVH-based reoptimization of the clinically approved plans, gas exchange-guided functional avoidance planning more effectively reduced the gas exchange-weighted metrics fMLD (average ± SD, -78 ± 79 cGy for gas exchange, compared with -45 ± 34 cGy for DVH-based; P = .03), MLD-f33% (-135 ± 136 cGy, compared with -52 ± 47 cGy; P = .004), and MLD-f50% (-96 ± 95 cGy, compared with -47 ± 40 cGy; P = .01). Comparing the 2 functional planning types, gas exchange-guided planning more effectively reduced MLD-f33% compared with ventilation-guided planning (-64 ± 95; P = .009). For some patients, gas exchange-guided functional avoidance plans demonstrated clinically significant reductions in model-predicted toxicity, more so than the accompanying ventilation-guided plans and DVH-based reoptimizations. CONCLUSION Gas exchange-guided planning effectively reduced dose to high gas exchanging regions of lung while maintaining clinically acceptable plan quality. In many patients, ventilation-guided planning incidentally reduced dose to higher gas exchange regions, to a lesser extent. This methodology enables future prospective trials to examine patient outcomes.
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Multiple Testing, Cut-Point Optimization, and Signs of Publication Bias in Prognostic FDG-PET Imaging Studies of Head and Neck and Lung Cancer: A Review and Meta-Analysis. Diagnostics (Basel) 2020; 10:diagnostics10121030. [PMID: 33271785 PMCID: PMC7761090 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics10121030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 11/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with 2-deoxy-2-[18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) was proposed as prognostic marker in radiotherapy. Various uptake metrics and cut points were used, potentially leading to inflated effect estimates. Here, we performed a meta-analysis and systematic review of the prognostic value of pretreatment FDG–PET in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with tests for publication bias. Hazard ratio (HR) for overall survival (OS), disease free survival (DFS), and local control was extracted or derived from the 57 studies included. Test for publication bias was performed, and the number of statistical tests and cut-point optimizations were registered. Eggers regression related to correlation of SUVmax with OS/DFS yielded p = 0.08/p = 0.02 for HNSCC and p < 0.001/p = 0.014 for NSCLC. No outcomes showed significant correlation with SUVmax, when adjusting for publication bias effect, whereas all four showed a correlation in the conventional meta-analysis. The number of statistical tests and cut points were high with no indication of improvement over time. Our analysis showed significant evidence of publication bias leading to inflated estimates of the prognostic value of SUVmax. We suggest that improved management of these complexities, including predefined statistical analysis plans, are critical for a reliable assessment of FDG–PET.
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Chvetsov AV, Stewart RD, Kim M, Meyer J, Rengan R. Volume effects in the TCP for hypoxic and oxygenated tumors. Med Phys 2020; 47:4626-4633. [DOI: 10.1002/mp.14257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Alevei V. Chvetsov
- Department of Radiation Oncology University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street Seattle WA98195‐6043USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street Seattle WA98195‐6043USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street Seattle WA98195‐6043USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street Seattle WA98195‐6043USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street Seattle WA98195‐6043USA
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Woods K, Neph R, Nguyen D, Sheng K. A sparse orthogonal collimator for small animal intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Part II: hardware development and commissioning. Med Phys 2019; 46:5733-5747. [PMID: 31621091 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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PURPOSE A dose-modulation device for small animal radiotherapy is required to use clinically analogous treatment techniques, which will likely increase the translatability of preclinical research results. Because the clinically used multileaf collimator (MLC) is impractical for miniaturization, we have developed a simpler, better-suited sparse orthogonal collimator (SOC) for delivering small animal intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using a rectangular aperture optimization (RAO) treatment planning system. METHODS The SOC system was modeled in computer-aided design software and fabricated with machined tungsten leaves and three-dimensional (3D) printed leaf housing. A graphical user interface was developed for controlling and calibrating the SOC leaves, which are driven by Arduino-controlled stepper motors. A Winston-Lutz test was performed to assess mechanical alignment, and abutting field and grid dose patterns were created to analyze intra- and intercalibration leaf positioning error. Leaf transmission and penumbra were measured over the full range of gantry angles and leaf positions, respectively. Three SOC test plans were delivered, and film measurements were compared to the intended dose distributions. The differences in maximum, mean, and minimum, as well as pixelwise absolute dose differences, were compared for each structure, and a gamma analysis was performed for the target structures using criteria of 4% dose difference and 0.3 mm distance to agreement. RESULTS The Winston-Lutz test revealed maximum directional offsets between the SOC and primary collimator axes of 0.53 mm at 0° and 0.68 mm over the full 360°. Upper and lower abutting field patterns had maximum dose deviations of 18.8 ± 3.1% and 15.5 ± 2.9%, respectively, and grid patterns showed intra- and intercalibration repeatability of 93% and 91%, respectively. Extremely low midleaf (0.15 ± 0.05%) and interleaf (0.27 ± 0.22%) transmission was measured, with no significant rotational variation. The average penumbra was ~0.8 mm for all leaves at field center, with a range of 0.17 mm for all leaf positions. A highly concave test plan was delivered with a ~ 95% gamma analysis pass rate, and a realistic mouse phantom liver irradiation plan achieved a pass rate of ~98%. A highly complex dose distribution was also created with 551 SOC apertures averaging 2.4 mm in size. CONCLUSIONS A sparse orthogonal collimator was developed and commissioned, with promising preliminary dosimetry results. The SOC design, with its limited moving components and high dose-modulation resolution, is ideal for delivering high-quality small animal IMRT with our RAO-based treatment planning system.
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- Kaley Woods
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Volume dependence in hypoxia‐targeted dose escalation. Med Phys 2018; 45:5325-5331. [DOI: 10.1002/mp.13176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Gago-Arias A, Sánchez-Nieto B, Espinoza I, Karger CP, Pardo-Montero J. Impact of different biologically-adapted radiotherapy strategies on tumor control evaluated with a tumor response model. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0196310. [PMID: 29698534 PMCID: PMC5919644 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Motivated by the capabilities of modern radiotherapy techniques and by the recent developments of functional imaging techniques, dose painting by numbers (DPBN) was proposed to treat tumors with heterogeneous biological characteristics. This work studies different DPBN optimization techniques for virtual head and neck tumors assessing tumor response in terms of cell survival and tumor control probability with a previously published tumor response model (TRM). Uniform doses of 2 Gy are redistributed according to the microscopic oxygen distribution and the density distribution of tumor cells in four virtual tumors with different biological characteristics. In addition, two different optimization objective functions are investigated, which: i) minimize tumor cell survival (OFsurv) or; ii) maximize the homogeneity of the density of surviving tumor cells (OFstd). Several adaptive schemes, ranging from single to daily dose optimization, are studied and the treatment response is compared to that of the uniform dose. The results show that the benefit of DPBN treatments depends on the tumor reoxygenation capability, which strongly differed among the set of virtual tumors investigated. The difference between daily (fraction by fraction) and three weekly optimizations (at the beginning of weeks 1, 3 and 4) was found to be small, and higher benefit was observed for the treatments optimized using OFsurv. This in silico study corroborates the hypothesis that DPBN may be beneficial for treatments of tumors which show reoxygenation during treatment, and that a few optimizations may be sufficient to achieve this therapeutic benefit.
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- Araceli Gago-Arias
- Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Grupo de Imaxe Molecular, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Servizo de Radiofísica e Protección Radiolóxica, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Mohamed ASR, Cardenas CE, Garden AS, Awan MJ, Rock CD, Westergaard SA, Brandon Gunn G, Belal AM, El-Gowily AG, Lai SY, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD, Aristophanous M. Patterns-of-failure guided biological target volume definition for head and neck cancer patients: FDG-PET and dosimetric analysis of dose escalation candidate subregions. Radiother Oncol 2017; 124:248-255. [PMID: 28774596 DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2017.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2017] [Revised: 07/01/2017] [Accepted: 07/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND To identify the radio-resistant subvolumes in pretreatment FDG-PET by mapping the spatial location of the origin of tumor recurrence after IMRT for head-and-neck squamous cell cancer to the pretreatment FDG-PET/CT. METHODS Patients with local/regional recurrence after IMRT with available FDG-PET/CT and post-failure CT were included. For each patient, both pre-therapy PET/CT and recurrence CT were co-registered with the planning CT (pCT). A 4-mm radius was added to the centroid of mapped recurrence growth target volumes (rGTV's) to create recurrence nidus-volumes (NVs). The overlap between boost-tumor-volumes (BTV) representing different SUV thresholds/margins combinations and NVs was measured. RESULTS Forty-seven patients were eligible. Forty-two (89.4%) had type A central high dose failure. Twenty-six (48%) of type A rGTVs were at the primary site and 28 (52%) were at the nodal site. The mean dose of type A rGTVs was 71Gy. BTV consisting of 50% of the maximum SUV plus 10mm margin was the best subvolume for dose boosting due to high coverage of primary site NVs (92.3%), low average relative volume to CTV1 (41%), and least average percent voxels outside CTV1 (19%). CONCLUSIONS The majority of loco-regional recurrences originate in the regions of central-high-dose. When correlated with pretreatment FDG-PET, the majority of recurrences originated in an area that would be covered by additional 10mm margin on the volume of 50% of the maximum FDG uptake.
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- Abdallah S R Mohamed
- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA; Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
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- Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.
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Lee E, Zeng J, Miyaoka RS, Saini J, Kinahan PE, Sandison GA, Wong T, Vesselle HJ, Rengan R, Bowen SR. Functional lung avoidance and response-adaptive escalation (FLARE) RT: Multimodality plan dosimetry of a precision radiation oncology strategy. Med Phys 2017; 44:3418-3429. [PMID: 28453861 DOI: 10.1002/mp.12308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Revised: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient radiation therapy (RT) is planned without consideration of spatial heterogeneity in lung function or tumor response. We assessed the dosimetric and clinical feasibility of functional lung avoidance and response-adaptive escalation (FLARE) RT to reduce dose to [99m Tc]MAA-SPECT/CT perfused lung while redistributing an escalated boost dose within [18 F]FDG-PET/CT-defined biological target volumes (BTV). METHODS Eight stage IIB-IIIB NSCLC patients underwent FDG-PET/CT and MAA-SPECT/CT treatment planning scans. Perfused lung objectives were derived from scatter/collimator/attenuation-corrected MAA-SPECT uptake relative to ITV-subtracted lung to maintain < 20 Gy mean lung dose (MLD). Prescriptions included 60 Gy to the planning target volume (PTV) and concomitant boost of 74 Gy mean to biological target volumes (BTV = GTV + PET gradient segmentation) scaled to each BTV voxel by relative FDG-PET SUV. Dose-painting-by-numbers prescriptions were integrated into commercial treatment planning systems via uptake threshold discretization. Dose constraints for lung, heart, cord, and esophagus were defined. FLARE RT plans were optimized with volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) with 3%-3 mm robust optimization, and combination of PBS (avoidance) plus VMAT (escalation). The high boost dose region was evaluated within a standardized SUVpeak structure. FLARE RT plans were compared to reference VMAT plans. Linear regression between radiation dose to BTV and normalized FDG PET SUV at every voxel was conducted, from which Pearson linear correlation coefficients and regression slopes were extracted. Spearman rank correlation coefficients were estimated between radiation dose to lung and normalized SPECT uptake. Dosimetric differences between treatment modalities were evaluated by Friedman nonparametric paired test with multiple sampling correction. RESULTS No unacceptable violations of PTV and normal tissue objectives were observed in 24 FLARE RT plans. Compared to reference VMAT plans, FLARE VMAT plans achieved a higher mean dose to BTV (73.7 Gy 98195. 61.3 Gy), higher mean dose to SUVpeak (89.7 Gy vs. 60.8 Gy), and lower mean dose to highly perfused lung (7.3 Gy vs. 14.9 Gy). These dosimetric gains came at the expense of higher mean heart dose (9.4 Gy vs. 5.8 Gy) and higher maximum cord dose (50.1 Gy vs. 44.6 Gy) relative to the reference VMAT plans. Between FLARE plans, FLARE VMAT achieved higher dose to the SUVpeak ROI than FLARE PBS (89.7 Gy vs. 79.2 Gy, P = 0.01), while FLARE PBS delivered lower dose to lung than FLARE VMAT (11.9 Gy vs. 15.6 Gy, P < 0.001). Voxelwise linear dose redistribution slope between BTV dose and FDG PET uptake was higher in magnitude for FLARE PBS + VMAT (0.36 Gy per %SUVmax ) compared to FLARE VMAT (0.27 Gy per %SUVmax ) or FLARE PBS alone (0.17 Gy per %SUVmax ). CONCLUSIONS FLARE RT is clinically feasible with VMAT and PBS. A combination of PBS for functional lung avoidance and VMAT for FDG PET dose escalation balanced target and normal tissue objective tradeoffs. These results provide a technical platform for testing of FLARE RT safety and efficacy within a precision radiation oncology trial.
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- Eunsin Lee
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therapy Center, 1570 N 115th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98133, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therapy Center, 1570 N 115th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98133, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology and Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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Chvetsov AV, Rajendran JG, Zeng J, Patel SA, Bowen SR, Kim EY. Theoretical effectiveness of cell survival in fractionated radiotherapy with hypoxia-targeted dose escalation. Med Phys 2017; 44:1975-1982. [PMID: 28236652 DOI: 10.1002/mp.12177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Revised: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The goal of this article is to compute the cell survival during fractionated radiotherapy with non-uniform hypoxia-targeted dose distribution relative to cell survival for a uniform dose distribution with equal integral tumor dose. The analysis is performed for different parameters of radiotherapy with conventional and hypofractionated dose regimens. METHODS Our analysis is done using a parsimonious tumor response model that describes the major components of tumor response to radiotherapy such as radiosensitivity, cell proliferation, and hypoxia using as few variables as possible. Two levels of oxygenated and hypoxic cells with the survival curves described by the linear quadratic (LQ) model are implemented in the model. The model allows for analytical solutions for relative cell survival in a single fraction simulation which can be used for additional validation of our numerical simulations. The relative cell survival was computed for conventional and hypofractionated dose regimens in a model problem with radiobiological parameters for the non-small-cell lung cancer. Sensitivity of cell survival to different parameters of radiotherapy such as the relative volume of hypoxic fraction, boost dose ratio, re-oxygenation rate, and delivery errors was investigated. RESULTS Our computational and analytical results show that relative cell survival for non-uniform and uniform dose distributions is larger than 1.0 during the first few fractions of radiotherapy with conventional fractionation. This indicates that the uniform dose distribution produces a higher cell killing effect for the equal integral dose. This may stem from domination of linear contribution to the cell killing effect seen in the dose range of 1-2 Gy and a steeper slope of survival curve in the oxygenated tumor region. This effect can only happen if the distribution of clonogens is nearly uniform; therefore, after the first few fractions, the non-uniform dose distributions outperform the uniform dose distribution and relative cell survival becomes less than 1.0. However, re-oxygenation and delivery errors can also reduce the effectiveness of hypoxia-targeted non-uniform dose distributions toward the end of treatment. For hypofractionated radiotherapy with fractional dose >3 Gy, the relative cell survival was always below 1.0, which means the non-uniform dose distributions produced higher cell killing effect than the uniform dose distribution during the entire treatment. CONCLUSION The data obtained in this work suggest that non-uniform hypoxia-targeted dose distributions are less effective at cell killing than uniform dose distributions at the beginning of radiotherapy with conventional fractionation. However; non-uniform dose distributions can outperform uniform dose distribution by the end of the treatment if the effects of re-oxygenation and delivery errors are reduced. In hypofractionated radiotherapy, non-uniform hypoxia-targeted dose distributions are more efficient than uniform dose distributions during the entire treatment.
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- Alexei V Chvetsov
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6043, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6043, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6043, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6043, USA
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- Departments of Radiation Oncology and Radiology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6043, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6043, USA
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Chaput A, Calais J, Robin P, Thureau S, Bourhis D, Modzelewski R, Schick U, Vera P, Salaün PY, Abgral R. Correlation between fluorodeoxyglucose hotspots on pretreatment positron emission tomography/CT and preferential sites of local relapse after chemoradiotherapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Head Neck 2017; 39:1155-1165. [PMID: 28263422 DOI: 10.1002/hed.24738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 12/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The potential benefits of 18 F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomography/CT (FDG-PET/CT) imaging for radiotherapy (RT) treatment planning of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are increasingly being recognized. It has been suggested that intratumoral subvolumes with high FDG avidity ("hotspots") are potential targets for selected dose escalation. The purposes of this study were to demonstrate that pre-RT FDG-PET/CT can identify intratumoral sites at increased risk of local relapse after RT and to determine an optimal threshold to delineate smaller RT target volumes that would facilitate RT dose escalation without impaired tolerance. METHODS Seventy-two consecutive patients with locally advanced HNSCC treated by RT ± chemotherapy were included in this study. All patients underwent FDG-PET/CT at initial staging (PETA ) and during systematic follow-up (PETR ). FDG-PET/CT was coregistered on the initial CT scan with a rigid method. Various subvolumes (AX ; × = 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90% standardized uptake value maximum [SUVmax] thresholds) within the primary tumor and in the subsequent local relapse (RX ; × = 40% and 70% SUVmax thresholds) were compared together (Dice, Jaccard, overlap fraction, common volume/baseline volume, and common volume/recurrent volume). RESULTS Nineteen patients (26%) had local relapses. Using a 40% SUVmax threshold, the initial metabolic tumor volume was significantly higher in patients with local relapses than in controlled patients (10.4 ± 8.6 vs 5.1 ± 4.9 cc; p = .002) as well as total lesion glycolysis (117.9 ± 88.6 vs 60.6 ± 80.4; p = .013). For both methods, the overlap index among A30 , A40 , and A50 subvolumes on PETA and the whole metabolic volume of recurrence R40 and R70 on PETR showed a moderate agreement (0.52 to 0.43). CONCLUSION Our study does not find high overlap index values between the initial tumor and recurrence subvolumes, probably because of a suboptimal coregistration. Our results also confirm that metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis are independently correlated with recurrence-free survival in patients with HNSCC. Further larger prospective studies with FDG-PET/CT performed in the same RT position and with a validated elastic registration method are needed. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 39: 1155-1165, 2017.
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- Anne Chaput
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bichat University Hospital, Inserm 1148, DHU FIRE, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.,Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Henri Becquerel Center, QuantIF (LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638), Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France.,European University of Brittany, EA3878 GETBO, IFR 148, Brest, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Henri Becquerel Center, QuantIF (LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638), Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Henri Becquerel Center, QuantIF (LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638), Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Henri Becquerel Center, QuantIF (LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638), Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France.,European University of Brittany, EA3878 GETBO, IFR 148, Brest, France
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brest University Hospital, Brest, France.,European University of Brittany, EA3878 GETBO, IFR 148, Brest, France
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Tsegmed U, Kimura T, Nakashima T, Nakamura Y, Higaki T, Imano N, Doi Y, Kenjo M, Ozawa S, Murakami Y, Awai K, Nagata Y. Functional image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy planning for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. Med Dosim 2017; 42:97-103. [DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2017.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2016] [Revised: 01/12/2017] [Accepted: 01/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Ireland R, Tahir B, Wild J, Lee C, Hatton M. Functional Image-guided Radiotherapy Planning for Normal Lung Avoidance. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2016; 28:695-707. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2016.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Revised: 07/19/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Matuszak MM, Matrosic C, Jarema D, McShan DL, Stenmark MH, Owen D, Jolly S, Kong FMS, Ten Haken RK. Priority-driven plan optimization in locally advanced lung patients based on perfusion SPECT imaging. Adv Radiat Oncol 2016; 1:281-289. [PMID: 28740898 PMCID: PMC5514230 DOI: 10.1016/j.adro.2016.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2016] [Revised: 10/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Purpose Limits on mean lung dose (MLD) allow for individualization of radiation doses at safe levels for patients with lung tumors. However, MLD does not account for individual differences in the extent or spatial distribution of pulmonary dysfunction among patients, which leads to toxicity variability at the same MLD. We investigated dose rearrangement to minimize the radiation dose to the functional lung as assessed by perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and maximize the target coverage to maintain conventional normal tissue limits. Methods and materials Retrospective plans were optimized for 15 patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer who were enrolled in a prospective imaging trial. A staged, priority-based optimization system was used. The baseline priorities were to meet physical MLD and other dose constraints for organs at risk, and to maximize the target generalized equivalent uniform dose (gEUD). To determine the benefit of dose rearrangement with perfusion SPECT, plans were reoptimized to minimize the generalized equivalent uniform functional dose (gEUfD) to the lung as the subsequent priority. Results When only physical MLD is minimized, lung gEUfD was 12.6 ± 4.9 Gy (6.3-21.7 Gy). When the dose is rearranged to minimize gEUfD directly in the optimization objective function, 10 of 15 cases showed a decrease in lung gEUfD of >20% (lung gEUfD mean 9.9 ± 4.3 Gy, range 2.1-16.2 Gy) while maintaining equivalent planning target volume coverage. Although all dose-limiting constraints remained unviolated, the dose rearrangement resulted in slight gEUD increases to the cord (5.4 ± 3.9 Gy), esophagus (3.0 ± 3.7 Gy), and heart (2.3 ± 2.6 Gy). Conclusions Priority-driven optimization in conjunction with perfusion SPECT permits image guided spatial dose redistribution within the lung and allows for a reduced dose to the functional lung without compromising target coverage or exceeding conventional limits for organs at risk.
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- Martha M Matuszak
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Grimes DR, Kannan P, Warren DR, Markelc B, Bates R, Muschel R, Partridge M. Estimating oxygen distribution from vasculature in three-dimensional tumour tissue. J R Soc Interface 2016; 13:20160070. [PMID: 26935806 PMCID: PMC4843681 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Regions of tissue which are well oxygenated respond better to radiotherapy than hypoxic regions by up to a factor of three. If these volumes could be accurately estimated, then it might be possible to selectively boost dose to radio-resistant regions, a concept known as dose-painting. While imaging modalities such as 18F-fluoromisonidazole positron emission tomography (PET) allow identification of hypoxic regions, they are intrinsically limited by the physics of such systems to the millimetre domain, whereas tumour oxygenation is known to vary over a micrometre scale. Mathematical modelling of microscopic tumour oxygen distribution therefore has the potential to complement and enhance macroscopic information derived from PET. In this work, we develop a general method of estimating oxygen distribution in three dimensions from a source vessel map. The method is applied analytically to line sources and quasi-linear idealized line source maps, and also applied to full three-dimensional vessel distributions through a kernel method and compared with oxygen distribution in tumour sections. The model outlined is flexible and stable, and can readily be applied to estimating likely microscopic oxygen distribution from any source geometry. We also investigate the problem of reconstructing three-dimensional oxygen maps from histological and confocal two-dimensional sections, concluding that two-dimensional histological sections are generally inadequate representations of the three-dimensional oxygen distribution.
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- David Robert Grimes
- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Engineering Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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Gago-Arias A, Aguiar P, Espinoza I, Sánchez-Nieto B, Pardo-Montero J. Modelling radiation-induced cell death and tumour re-oxygenation: local versus global and instant versus delayed cell death. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:1204-16. [DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/3/1204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Although many PET tracers are in use, FDG still is the most widely used in clinical oncology practice. FDG therefore deserves an in-depth discussion, which is even more interesting because of the huge increase in the molecular biology of glucose metabolism. Obviously, other tracers are of increasing importance as well, and these will be discussed in short.
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- Dirk De Ruysscher
- Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven/KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
- Maastricht University Medical Center, GROW, Maastro clinic, Louvain, Belgium.
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- Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven/KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium
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- Section for Biomedical Physics, University Hospital for Radiation Oncology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Coolens C, Driscoll B, Chung C, Shek T, Gorjizadeh A, Ménard C, Jaffray D. Automated voxel-based analysis of volumetric dynamic contrast-enhanced CT data improves measurement of serial changes in tumor vascular biomarkers. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2014; 91:48-57. [PMID: 25446606 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2014] [Revised: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Development of perfusion imaging as a biomarker requires more robust methodologies for quantification of tumor physiology that allow assessment of volumetric tumor heterogeneity over time. This study proposes a parametric method for automatically analyzing perfused tissue from volumetric dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) computed tomography (CT) scans and assesses whether this 4-dimensional (4D) DCE approach is more robust and accurate than conventional, region-of-interest (ROI)-based CT methods in quantifying tumor perfusion with preliminary evaluation in metastatic brain cancer. METHODS AND MATERIALS Functional parameter reproducibility and analysis of sensitivity to imaging resolution and arterial input function were evaluated in image sets acquired from a 320-slice CT with a controlled flow phantom and patients with brain metastases, whose treatments were planned for stereotactic radiation surgery and who consented to a research ethics board-approved prospective imaging biomarker study. A voxel-based temporal dynamic analysis (TDA) methodology was used at baseline, at day 7, and at day 20 after treatment. The ability to detect changes in kinetic parameter maps in clinical data sets was investigated for both 4D TDA and conventional 2D ROI-based analysis methods. RESULTS A total of 7 brain metastases in 3 patients were evaluated over the 3 time points. The 4D TDA method showed improved spatial efficacy and accuracy of perfusion parameters compared to ROI-based DCE analysis (P<.005), with a reproducibility error of less than 2% when tested with DCE phantom data. Clinically, changes in transfer constant from the blood plasma into the extracellular extravascular space (Ktrans) were seen when using TDA, with substantially smaller errors than the 2D method on both day 7 post radiation surgery (±13%; P<.05) and by day 20 (±12%; P<.04). Standard methods showed a decrease in Ktrans but with large uncertainty (111.6 ± 150.5) %. CONCLUSIONS Parametric voxel-based analysis of 4D DCE CT data resulted in greater accuracy and reliability in measuring changes in perfusion CT-based kinetic metrics, which have the potential to be used as biomarkers in patients with metastatic brain cancer.
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- Catherine Coolens
- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Shi X, Meng X, Sun X, Xing L, Yu J. PET/CT imaging-guided dose painting in radiation therapy. Cancer Lett 2014; 355:169-75. [PMID: 25218590 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2014.07.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2014] [Revised: 07/17/2014] [Accepted: 07/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Application of functional imaging to radiotherapy (RT) is a rapidly expanding field with the development of new modalities and techniques. Functional imaging of PET in conjunction with RT provides new avenues towards the clinical application of dose painting - a new RT strategy delivering optimized dose redistribution according to the functional imaging information to further improve tumour control. Two prototypical strategies of dose painting are reviewed: dose painting by contours (DPBC) and dose painting by numbers (DPBN). DPBN set a linear correlation of the boost dose and image intensity of this same voxel while homogeneous dose is given to the subvolume contoured by a threshold created in PET images in DPBC. Both comply with strict organs at risk (OAR) constraints and are alternatives for boosting subvolumes in clinical practice. This review focuses on the rationale, target validation, dose prescription verification and evaluation and recent clinical achievements in the field of integrating PET imaging into RT treatment planning. Further research is necessary in order to investigate unresolved problems in its routine clinical application thoroughly.
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- Xiaorong Shi
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology of Shandong Province, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China; Department of Oncology, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shanxi Province, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology of Shandong Province, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology of Shandong Province, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology of Shandong Province, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Key Laboratory of Radiation Oncology of Shandong Province, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China.
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Grimes DR, Fletcher AG, Partridge M. Oxygen consumption dynamics in steady-state tumour models. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2014; 1:140080. [PMID: 26064525 PMCID: PMC4448765 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.140080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2014] [Accepted: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Oxygen levels in cancerous tissue can have a significant effect on treatment response: hypoxic tissue is both more radioresistant and more chemoresistant than well-oxygenated tissue. While recent advances in medical imaging have facilitated real-time observation of macroscopic oxygenation, the underlying physics limits the resolution to the millimetre domain, whereas oxygen tension varies over a micrometre scale. If the distribution of oxygen in the tumour micro-environment can be accurately estimated, then the effect of potential dose escalation to these hypoxic regions could be better modelled, allowing more realistic simulation of biologically adaptive treatments. Reaction-diffusion models are commonly used for modelling oxygen dynamics, with a variety of functional forms assumed for the dependence of oxygen consumption rate (OCR) on cellular status and local oxygen availability. In this work, we examine reaction-diffusion models of oxygen consumption in spherically and cylindrically symmetric geometries. We consider two different descriptions of oxygen consumption: one in which the rate of consumption is constant and one in which it varies with oxygen tension in a hyperbolic manner. In each case, we derive analytic approximations to the steady-state oxygen distribution, which are shown to closely match the numerical solutions of the equations and accurately predict the extent to which oxygen can diffuse. The derived expressions relate the limit to which oxygen can diffuse into a tissue to the OCR of that tissue. We also demonstrate that differences between these functional forms are likely to be negligible within the range of literature estimates of the hyperbolic oxygen constant, suggesting that the constant consumption rate approximation suffices for modelling oxygen dynamics for most values of OCR. These approximations also allow the rapid identification of situations where hyperbolic consumption forms can result in significant differences from constant consumption rate models, and so can reduce the computational workload associated with numerical solutions, by estimating both the oxygen diffusion distances and resultant oxygen profile. Such analysis may be useful for parameter fitting in large imaging datasets and histological sections, and allows easy quantification of projected differences between functional forms of OCR.
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- David Robert Grimes
- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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- Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
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- Cancer Research UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Gray Laboratory, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Off Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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Grimes DR, Kelly C, Bloch K, Partridge M. A method for estimating the oxygen consumption rate in multicellular tumour spheroids. J R Soc Interface 2014; 11:20131124. [PMID: 24430128 PMCID: PMC3899881 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.1124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2013] [Accepted: 12/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Hypoxia occurs when oxygen levels within a tissue drop below normal physiological levels. In tumours, hypoxia is associated with poor prognosis, increased likelihood of metastasis and resistance to therapy. Imaging techniques, for example, positron emission tomography, are increasingly used in the monitoring of tumour hypoxia and have the potential to help in the planning of radiotherapy. For this application, improved understanding of the link between image contrast and quantitative underlying oxygen distribution would be very useful. Mathematical models of tissue hypoxia and image formation can help understand this. Hypoxia is caused by an imbalance between vascular supply and tissue demand. While much work has been dedicated to the quantitative description of tumour vascular networks, consideration of tumour oxygen consumption is largely neglected. Oxidative respiration in standard two-dimensional cell culture has been widely studied. However, two-dimensional culture fails to capture the complexities of growing three-dimensional tissue which could impact on the oxygen usage. In this study, we build on previous descriptions of oxygen consumption and diffusion in three-dimensional tumour spheroids and present a method for estimating rates of oxygen consumption from spheroids, validated using stained spheroid sections. Methods for estimating the local partial pressure of oxygen, the diffusion limit and the extents of the necrotic core, hypoxic region and proliferating rim are also derived. These are validated using experimental data from DLD1 spheroids at different stages of growth. A relatively constant experimentally derived diffusion limit of 232 ± 22 μm and an O2 consumption rate of 7.29 ± 1.4 × 10(-7) m(3) kg(-1) s(-1) for the spheroids studied was measured, in agreement with laboratory measurements.
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- David Robert Grimes
- The Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus Research Building, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK
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Dubray B, Thureau S, Nkhali L, Modzelewski R, Doyeux K, Ruan S, Vera P. FDG-PET imaging for radiotherapy target volume definition in lung cancer. Ing Rech Biomed 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.irbm.2013.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Rosenberg L, Tepper J. Present and future innovations in radiation oncology. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 2013; 22:599-618. [PMID: 23622082 DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2013.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The purpose of this article is to provide a review of innovations in radiation oncology that have been recently adopted as well as those that are likely to be adopted in the near future. Physics and engineering innovations, including image-guidance technologies and charged particle therapy, are discussed. Biologic innovations, including novel radiation sensitizers, functional imaging for use in treatment planning, and altered fractionation, are also discussed.
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- Lewis Rosenberg
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
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Fraass BA, Moran JM. Quality, technology and outcomes: evolution and evaluation of new treatments and/or new technology. Semin Radiat Oncol 2012; 22:3-10. [PMID: 22177873 DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2011.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The pace of technological innovation and adoption continues to increase each year, and the field of Radiation Oncology struggles to react appropriately to the changes and potential improvements in treatment which hopefully will result from this innovation. The standard methods used in the past to test new technology and treatment techniques are often no longer appropriate for this fast-changing environment. This paper uses examples from radiotherapy technological developments over the last decades to illustrate issues which need to be solved in order to study and evaluate potential advances, and then describes several improved ways to study new techniques and technology. Design of appropriate studies can help us improve patient care while at the same time documenting which new clinical strategies, enabled by new technology, lead to improved patient outcomes.
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- Benedick A Fraass
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
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