Yao Ding1, Abdallah S R Mohamed2, Jinzhong Yang3, Rivka R Colen4, Steven J Frank5, Jihong Wang5, Eslam Y Wassal6, Wenjie Wang3, Michael E Kantor7, Peter A Balter8, David I Rosenthal7, Stephen Y Lai9, John D Hazle10, Clifton D Fuller11. 1. Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. 2. Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Clinical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. 3. Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. 4. Department of Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. 5. Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas. 6. Department of Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. 7. Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. 8. Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas. 9. Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. 10. Department of Imaging Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas. 11. Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas. Electronic address: cdfuller@mdanderson.org.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of a head and neck magnetic resonance simulation and immobilization protocol on reducing motion-induced artifacts and improving positional variance for radiation therapy applications. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Two groups (group 1, 17 patients; group 2, 14 patients) of patients with head and neck cancer were included under a prospective, institutional review board-approved protocol and signed informed consent. A 3.0-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner was used for anatomic and dynamic contrast-enhanced acquisitions with standard diagnostic MRI setup for group 1 and radiation therapy immobilization devices for group 2 patients. The impact of magnetic resonance simulation/immobilization was evaluated qualitatively by 2 observers in terms of motion artifacts and positional reproducibility and quantitatively using 3-dimensional deformable registration to track intrascan maximum motion displacement of voxels inside 7 manually segmented regions of interest. RESULTS: The image quality of group 2 (29 examinations) was significantly better than that of group 1 (50 examinations) as rated by both observers in terms of motion minimization and imaging reproducibility (P < .0001). The greatest average maximum displacement was at the region of the larynx in the posterior direction for patients in group 1 (17 mm; standard deviation, 8.6 mm), whereas the smallest average maximum displacement was at the region of the posterior fossa in the superior direction for patients in group 2 (0.4 mm; standard deviation, 0.18 mm). Compared with group 1, maximum regional motion was reduced in group 2 patients in the oral cavity, floor of mouth, oropharynx, and larynx regions; however, the motion reduction reached statistical significance only in the regions of the oral cavity and floor of mouth (P < .0001). CONCLUSIONS: The image quality of head and neck MRI in terms of motion-related artifacts and positional reproducibility was greatly improved by use of radiation therapy immobilization devices. Consequently, immobilization with external and intraoral fixation in MRI examinations is required for radiation therapy application.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of a head and neck magnetic resonance simulation and immobilization protocol on reducing motion-induced artifacts and improving positional variance for radiation therapy applications. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Two groups (group 1, 17 patients; group 2, 14 patients) of patients with head and neck cancer were included under a prospective, institutional review board-approved protocol and signed informed consent. A 3.0-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner was used for anatomic and dynamic contrast-enhanced acquisitions with standard diagnostic MRI setup for group 1 and radiation therapy immobilization devices for group 2 patients. The impact of magnetic resonance simulation/immobilization was evaluated qualitatively by 2 observers in terms of motion artifacts and positional reproducibility and quantitatively using 3-dimensional deformable registration to track intrascan maximum motion displacement of voxels inside 7 manually segmented regions of interest. RESULTS: The image quality of group 2 (29 examinations) was significantly better than that of group 1 (50 examinations) as rated by both observers in terms of motion minimization and imaging reproducibility (P < .0001). The greatest average maximum displacement was at the region of the larynx in the posterior direction for patients in group 1 (17 mm; standard deviation, 8.6 mm), whereas the smallest average maximum displacement was at the region of the posterior fossa in the superior direction for patients in group 2 (0.4 mm; standard deviation, 0.18 mm). Compared with group 1, maximum regional motion was reduced in group 2 patients in the oral cavity, floor of mouth, oropharynx, and larynx regions; however, the motion reduction reached statistical significance only in the regions of the oral cavity and floor of mouth (P < .0001). CONCLUSIONS: The image quality of head and neck MRI in terms of motion-related artifacts and positional reproducibility was greatly improved by use of radiation therapy immobilization devices. Consequently, immobilization with external and intraoral fixation in MRI examinations is required for radiation therapy application.
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