Imaging and Image-Guided Radiation Therapy in Liver Cancer

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-255

  Brock, Kristy K ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL COMPRESSION; ARTIFACT; BREATH HOLDING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING; LIVER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052973438     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: 15329461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Bruix J., Sherman M. Management of hepatocellular carcinoma: An update. Hepatology 2011, 53:1020-1022.
2. Hussain S.M., Semelka R.C. Hepatic imaging: Comparison of modalities. Radiol Clin North Am 2005, 43:929-947.
3. Voroney J.P., Brock K.K., Eccles C., et al. Prospective comparison of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging for liver cancer delineation using deformable image registration. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006, 66:780-791.
4. Zech C.J., Herrmann K.A., Huber A., et al. High-resolution MR-imaging of the liver with T2-weighted sequences using integrated parallel imaging: Comparison of prospective motion correction and respiratory triggering. J Magn Reson Imaging 2004, 20:443-450.
5. Fritscher-Ravens A., Bohuslavizki K.H., Broering L., et al. FDG PET in the diagnosis of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Nucl Med Commun 2001, 22:1277-1285.
6. Teefey S.A., Hildeboldt C.C., Dehdashti F., et al. Detection of primary hepatic malignancy in liver transplant candidates: Prospective comparison of CT, MR imaging, US, and PET. Radiology 2003, 226:533-542.
7. Lujan A.E., Larsen E.W., Balter J.M., et al. A method for incorporating organ motion due to breathing into 3D dose calculations. Med Phys 1999, 26:715-720.
8. Seppenwoolde Y., Shirato H., Kitamura K., et al. Precise and real-time measurement of 3D tumor motion in lung due to breathing and heartbeat, measured during radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2002, 53:822-834.
9. Nehmeh S.A., Erdi Y.E., Rosenzweig K.E., et al. Reduction of respiratory motion artifacts in PET imaging of lung cancer by respiratory correlated dynamic PET: Methodology and comparison with respiratory gated PET. J Nucl Med 2003, 44:1644-1648.
10. Wang M.H., Ji Y., Zeng Z.C., et al. Impact factors for microinvasion in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: Possible application to the definition of clinical tumor volume. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010, 76:467-476.
11. Ai-Hong B.I., Zeng Z-C., Yuan J.I., et al. Impact factors for microinvasion in intraheptic cholangiocarcinoma: A possible system for defining clinical target volume. Int J Radiation Oncology Biol Phys 2010, 78:1427-1436.
12. Balter J.M., Lam K.L., McGinn C.J., et al. Improvement of CT-based treatment-planning models of abdominal targets using static exhale imaging. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1998, 41:939-943.
13. Wolthaus J.W., Schneider C., Sonke J.J., et al. Mid-ventilation CT scan construction from four-dimensional respiration-correlated CT scans for radiotherapy planning of lung cancer patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006, 65:1560-1571.
14. Hugo G.D., Yan D., Liang J. Population and patient-specific target margins for 4D adaptive radiotherapy to account for intra- and inter-fraction variation in lung tumour position. Phys Med Biol 2007, 52:257-274.
15. Keall P.J., Mageras G.S., Balter J.M., et al. The management of respiratory motion in radiation oncology report of AAPM Task Group 76. Med Phys 2006, 33:3874-3900.
16. Kitamura K., Shirato H., Seppenwoolde Y., et al. Tumor location, cirrhosis, and surgical history contribute to tumor movement in the liver, as measured during stereotactic irradiation using a real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy system. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003, 56:221-228.
17. Kirilova A., Lockwood G., Choi P., et al. Three-dimensional motion of liver tumors using cine-magnetic resonance imaging. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008, 71:1189-1195.
18. Shimizu S., Shirato H., Xo B., et al. Three-dimensional movement of a liver tumor detected by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging. Radiother Oncol 1999, 50:367-370.
19. Vedam S.S., Keall P.J., Kini V.R., et al. Acquiring a four-dimensional computed tomography dataset using an external respiratory signal. Phys Med Biol 2003, 48:45-62.
20. Beddar A.S., Briere T.M., Balter P., et al. 4D-CT imaging with synchronized intravenous contrast injection to improve delineation of liver tumors for treatment planning. Radiother Oncol 2008, 87:445-448.
21. Coolens C, White M, Hawkes D, et al: Free breathing liver gated radiotherapy with external markers using MRI derived models of hepatic motion, vol 2. Ontario, Canada, Toronto, Proceedings XVth ICCR, 2007, pp 496-500.
22. Herfarth K.K., Debus J., Lohr F., et al. Extracranial stereotactic radiation therapy: Set-up accuracy of patients treated for liver metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2000, 46:329-335.
23. Dawson L.A., Brock K.K., Kazanjian S., et al. The reproducibility of organ position using active breathing control (ABC) during liver radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2001, 51:1410-1421.
24. Eccles C., Brock K.K., Bissonnette J.P., et al. Reproducibility of liver position using active breathing coordinator for liver cancer radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006, 64:751-759.
25. Shirato H., Shimizu S., Kitamura K., et al. Four-dimensional treatment planning and fluoroscopic real-time tumor tracking radiotherapy for moving tumor. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2000, 48:435-442.
26. Rietzel E., Rosenthal S.J., Gierga C.G., et al. Moving targets: Detection and tracking of internal organ motion for treatment planning and patient set-up. Radiother Oncol 2004, 73(suppl 2):S68-S72.
27. Beddar A.S., Kainz K., Briere T.M., et al. Correlation between internal fiducial tumor motion and external marker motion for liver tumors imaged with 4D-CT. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007, 67:630-638.
28. Hawkins M.A., Brock K.K., Eccles C., et al. Assessment of residual error in liver position using kV cone-beam computed tomography for liver cancer high-precision radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006, 66:610-619.
29. Fuss M., Salter B.J., Cavanaugh S.X., et al. Daily ultrasound-based image-guided targeting for radiotherapy of upper abdominal malignancies. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2004, 59:1245-1256.
30. Uematsu M., Shioda A., Suda A., et al. Intrafractional tumor position stability during computed tomography (CT)-guided frameless stereotactic radiation therapy for lung or liver cancers with a fusion of CT and linear accelerator (FOCAL) unit. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2000, 48:443-448.
31. Ruchala K.J., Olivera G.H., Kapatoes J.M., et al. Megavoltage CT image reconstruction during tomotherapy treatments. Phys Med Biol 2000, 45:3545-3562.
32. Jaffray D.A., Siewerdsen J.H. Cone-beam computed tomography with a flat-panel imager: Initial performance characterization. Med Phys 2000, 27:1311-1323.
33. Groh B.A., Siewerdsen J.H., Drake D.G., et al. A performance comparison of flat-panel imager-based MV and kV cone-beam CT. Med Phys 2002, 29:967-975.
34. Sonke J.J., Zijp L., Remeijer P., et al. Respiratory correlated cone beam CT. Med Phys 2005, 32:1176-1186.
35. Guckenberger M., Sweeney R.A., Wilbert J., et al. Image-guided radiotherapy for liver cancer using respiratory-correlated computed tomography and cone-beam computed tomography. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2008, 71:297-304.
36. Yan D., Wong J., Vicini F., et al. Adaptive modification of treatment planning to minimize the deleterious effects of treatment setup errors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1997, 38:197-206.
37. Romero A., Mendez J., Verheij R.S., et al. Comparison of macroscopic pathology measurements with magnetic resonance imaging and assessment of microscopic pathology extension for colorectal liver metastases. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010, [Epub ahead of print].
38. Fallone B.G., Murray B., Rathee S., et al. First MR images obtained during megavoltage photon irradiation from a prototype integrated linac-MR system. Med Phys 2009, 36:2084-2088.
39. Lagendijk J.J., Raaymakers B.W., Raaijmakers A.J., et al. MRI/linac integration. Radiother Oncol 2008, 86:25-29.
40. Velec M., Moseley J.L., Eccles C.L., et al. Effect of breathing motion on radiotherapy dose accumulation in the abdomen Using Deformable Registration. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010, 80:265-272.