Estimating the probability of underdosing microscopic brain metastases with hippocampal-sparing whole-brain radiation.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results describe the characteristics of an array of hippocampal-sparing whole-brain radiation dose distributions. These can be used as a decision-making guideline for weighing the benefit of decreased dose to the hippocampi against the cost of decreased dose to potential brain metastases when deciding on a hippocampal-sparing whole-brain irradiation treatment approach. PMID: 27406442 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research