Consistency Analysis of Target Delineation in Post-Operative Radiotherapy for
Glioma Using Multi-Mode MR
XU Xiaoxi1, ZHANG Wei1, SONG Qiong2
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1. Department of Radiology, The 1st Hospital of Wuhan City, Wuhan Hubei 430022, China;
2. Department of Pharmacy, The 9th Hospital of Wuhan City, Wuhan Hubei 430081, China
Objective To explore the consistency of different modality MR imaging in target delineation of brain glioma radiotherapy.
Methods A total of 33 patients with postoperative radiotherapy for glioma were retrospectively analyzed. Tumor target areas were
manually delineated on T2WI, FLAIR and DWI modes, respectively. Clinical Target Volume (CTV) was calculated by area summation method.
The differences of CTV among the 3 groups using different MR mode were compared by randomized blocks analysis of variance. The 95% limits
of agreement (95%LoA) of CTV between the 3 groups were assessed by Bland-Atlman method. Results There was no significant
difference in CTV among different modes of T2WI, FLAIR and DWI(F=0.088,P=0.916).The 95% LoA of T2WI
and FLAIR, T2WI and DWI, FLAIR and DWI were (-78.3-98.4)mm3,(-91.2-114.1)mm3 and(-101.3-98.4)mm3, respectively.
There were 6.06% (2/33) points outside 95%LoA, beyond the clinically acceptable range. Conclusion The consistency of
CTV measurment using different modality MR images for gliomas postoperative radiotherapy is not good and can not be
replaced by each other. Clinical application should pay more attention to the joint analysis of different modes.
XU Xiaoxi, ZHANG Wei, SONG Qiong. , {{custom_author.name_en}}et al.
Consistency Analysis of Target Delineation in Post-Operative Radiotherapy for
Glioma Using Multi-Mode MR[J].
China Medical Devices, 2019, 34(7): 83-86 https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1674-1633.2019.07.020