The impact of fluorine-18-fluoroethyltyrosine positron emission tomography scan timing on radiotherapy planning in newly diagnosed patients with glioblastoma
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2024-01-01
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Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
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Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology
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Ryan, J., Hardcastle, N., Francis, R., Ferjančič, P., Ng, S. P., Koh, E. S., Geso, M., Kelly, J. & Ebert, M. A. (2024). The impact of fluorine-18-fluoroethyltyrosine positron emission tomography scan timing on radiotherapy planning in newly diagnosed patients with glioblastoma. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 29, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2024.100536.
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Glioblastoma is one of the most common and aggressive primary brain tumours in adults. Though radiation therapy (RT) techniques have progressed significantly in recent decades, patient survival has seen little improvement. However, an area of promise is the use of fluorine-18-fluoroethyltyrosine positron-emission-tomography (18F-FET PET) imaging to assist in RT target delineation. This retrospective study aims to assess the impact of 18F-FET PET scan timing on the resultant RT target volumes and subsequent RT plans in post-operative glioblastoma patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The imaging and RT treatment data of eight patients diagnosed with glioblastoma and treated at a single institution were analysed. Before starting RT, each patient had two 18F-FET-PET scans acquired within seven days of each other. The information from these 18F-FET-PET scans aided in the creation of two novel target volume sets. The new volumes and plans were compared with each other and the originals. RESULTS: The median clinical target volume (CTV) 1 was statistically smaller than CTV 2. The median Dice score for the CTV1/CTV2 was 0.98 and, of the voxels that differ (median 6.5 cc), 99.7% were covered with a 5 mm expansion. Overall organs at risk (OAR) and target dosimetry were similar in the PTV1 and PTV2 plans. CONCLUSION: Provided the 18F-FET PET scan is acquired within two weeks of the RT planning and a comprehensive approach is taken to CTV delineation, the timing of scan acquisition has minimal impact on the resulting RT plan.