Incorporating sensitive cardiac substructure sparing into radiation therapy planning.
CONCLUSIONS: By introducing 0.35T MRIs acquired on an MR-linac to verify cardiac substructure segmentations for CT-based treatment planning, an opportunity was presented for more effective sparing with limited increase in plan complexity. Validation in a larger cohort with appropriate margins offers potential to reduce radiation-related cardiotoxicities.
PMID: 33073454 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics - Category: Physics Authors: Morris ED, Aldridge K, Ghanem AI, Zhu S, Glide-Hurst CK Tags: J Appl Clin Med Phys Source Type: research
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