| Literature DB >> 35394064 |
Hamed Hooshangnejad1,2,3, Sarah Han-Oh2, Eun Ji Shin4, Amol Narang2, Avani Dholakia Rao2, Junghoon Lee2,3, Todd McNutt2, Chen Hu2,5, John Wong2, Kai Ding2,3.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death with a 10% 5-year overall survival rate (OS). Radiation therapy (RT) in addition to dose escalation improves the outcome by significantly increasing the OS at 2 and 3 years but is hindered by the toxicity of the duodenum. Our group showed that the insertion of hydrogel spacer reduces duodenal toxicity, but the complex anatomy and the demanding procedure make the benefits highly uncertain. Here, we investigated the feasibility of augmenting the workflow with intraoperative feedback to reduce the adverse effects of the uncertainties.Entities:
Keywords: FEMOSSA duodenal virtual spacer; spacer-enabled pancreatic cancer radiotherapy; virtual spacer corrective feedback
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35394064 PMCID: PMC9540875 DOI: 10.1002/mp.15665
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Phys ISSN: 0094-2405 Impact factor: 4.506
FIGURE 1(A) Anatomically, the “C”‐shaped duodenum curves around the head of the pancreas (HOP) and is divided into four sections D1–D4. (B) The duodenal spacer placement increases the separation between the duodenum and pancreas. (C) Illustration of two GTV types and duodenal loop: The small (red) and large (yellow) GTV, along with the duodenal C loop. (D) The duodenal loop is divided into three main parts: descending (green), horizontal (cyan), and ascending (purple)
FIGURE 2Spacer distribution was determined using the designed graphical user interface that utilizes the 2D visualization of ROIs. The figure also shows the representation of FEMOSSA user interface. N indicates the number of blebs currently placed. V shows the approximate volume of spacer so far. The yellow disk represents the bleb in 2D and the 3 shows the radius for the current bleb (A). The spacer distribution was chosen so that the PTV has minimum to no overlap with the duodenum. (B) The 3D visualization of ROIs and the PTV overlap with the duodenum (yellow volume). (C) The result of virtual spacer planning shows PTV has minimum overlap with the duodenum
FIGURE 3The 3D visualization of four stages of ROI. As seen, the Ideal Injection aims for removing the overlap between the PTV and duodenum (yellow volume). However, there are uncertainties associated with the procedure, narrowing (top row) and missing parts (bottom row). Using the intraoperative feedback, the corrective injection will be planned to remove the remaining overlapping volume
FIGURE 4Illustration of 33 Gy (red) and 20 Gy (cyan) isodose line along with duodenum (filled blue) and GTV (filled red) for an example case. The top row shows the conventional axial view and the bottom row the coronal view which gives a better view of the duodenal loop and GTV
FIGURE 5The quantified measurement and comparison of separation of OAR and target for all four scenarios and cases and two GTV types, small (A) and large (B). The separation is quantified by using L1cc distance
FIGURE 6The V33Gy, duodenal volume receiving 33 Gy, for four scenarios of injection and all four cases, for (A) small GTV and (B) large GTV case. As seen, in both cases, the ideal injection resulted in high duodenal sparing, but the duodenum and nonideal injection reduced the efficacy of spacer, and finally, the corrective injection compensated for the uncertainties