MRI reduces variation of contouring for boost clinical target volume in breast cancer patients without surgical clips in the tumour bed
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17. März 2017
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Online veröffentlicht: 17. März 2017
Seitenbereich: 160 - 168
Eingereicht: 05. Dez. 2016
Akzeptiert: 19. Feb. 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/raon-2017-0014
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© 2017 Noora Al-Hammadi, Palmira Caparrotti, Saju Divakar, Mohamed Riyas, Suparna Halsnad Chandramouli, Rabih Hammoud, Jillian Hayes, Maeve Mc Garry, Satheesh Prasad Paloor, Primoz Petric
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Accuracy index (AI) and inter-delineation distances (IDD), based on the expert consensus (EC) delineation as the reference_ The differences in AI and IDD between CT and MRI were statistically significant (p < 0_05)
CT | MRI | |||||||||||
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Case | ||||||||||||
IDD [mm] | AI | IDD [mm] | AI | |||||||||
2.1 | 0.8 | 38 | 0.88 | 0.02 | 3 | 1.8 | 0.58 | 32 | 0.88 | 0.01 | 2 | |
3.6 | 1.9 | 53 | 0.78 | 0.1 | 12 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 59 | 0.83 | 0.02 | 3 | |
3.9 | 2.6 | 67 | 0.67 | 0.07 | 10 | 3.2 | 1.8 | 56 | 0.78 | 0.02 | 2 | |
2.3 | 1 | 43 | 0.75 | 0.06 | 8 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 39 | 0.77 | 0.05 | 6 | |
6 | 4 | 67 | 0.61 | 0.15 | 24 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 47 | 0.73 | 0.14 | 20 | |
2.6 | 1.1 | 42 | 0.82 | 0.02 | 2 | 2.6 | 1 | 38 | 0.83 | 0.02 | 2 | |
6 | 4.1 | 68 | 0.64 | 0.09 | 14 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 50 | 0.76 | 0.05 | 7 | |
2.4 | 1.2 | 50 | 0.85 | 0.02 | 2 | 2.2 | 1 | 45 | 0.86 | 0.04 | 4 | |
3 | 2.9 | 97 | 0.81 | 0.04 | 5 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 62 | 0.80 | 0.05 | 6 | |
4.5 | 3.5 | 78 | 0.77 | 0.07 | 9 | 3.3 | 2 | 61 | 0.84 | 0.02 | 2 | |
3.3 | 2 | 61 | 0.74 | 0.09 | 12 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 52 | 0.83 | 0.02 | 3 | |
3.4 | 2.3 | 68 | 0.77 | 0.06 | 8 | 3.6 | 1.7 | 47 | 0.80 | 0.02 | 2 | |
3.6 | 2.3 | 61 | 0.76 | 0.07 | 9 | 3 | 1.5 | 49 | 0.81 | 0.04 | 5 |
Results for inter-observer variation in contouring_ The difference in mean generalized conformity index (CIgen) between the CT and MRI based contouring was statistically significant (p = 0_007)
Case | CT | MRI | ||||
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198 (10) | 5 | 0.85 | 106 (4) | 4 | 0.87 | |
241 (37.5) | 16 | 0.69 | 256 (28) | 11 | 0.77 | |
108 (20.7) | 19 | 0.56 | 125 (10) | 8 | 0.75 | |
75 (18.1) | 24 | 0.64 | 92 (12) | 13 | 0.69 | |
175 (47.9) | 27 | 0.46 | 217 (68) | 31 | 0.63 | |
140 (10.1) | 7 | 0.76 | 125 (14) | 11 | 0.76 | |
103(39.7) | 39 | 0.48 | 64 (2) | 4 | 0.66 | |
180 (22.5) | 12 | 0.79 | 158 (14) | 9 | 0.8 | |
135 (19.8) | 15 | 0.77 | 126 (20) | 16 | 0.71 | |
204 (44.3) | 22 | 0.68 | 215 (19) | 9 | 0.76 | |
99 (14.4) | 15 | 0.66 | 135 (11) | 8 | 0.79 | |
195 (27.3) | 14 | 0.69 | 210 (29) | 14 | 0.74 | |
154 (26) | 18 | 0.67 (0.12) | 152 (19) | 12 | 0.74 (0.07) |