Retrospective evaluation of decision-making for pancreatic stereotactic MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS: Daily-image visual review is not reliable to determine benefit or not for adaptive radiation-therapy. Online predicted plan, based on deformed and manually adjusted contours, should be generated for every fraction that is delivered using SMART in order to reliably optimize treatment plans daily. PMID: 30174107 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - August 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Tyran M, Jiang N, Cao M, Raldow A, Lamb JM, Low D, Luterstein E, Steinberg ML, Lee P Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research