ArticleRadiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology2018
Assessment of image quality of a radiotherapy-specific hardware solution for PET/MRI in head and neck cancer patients.
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Abstract
background and purposeFunctional PET/MRI has great potential to improve radiotherapy planning (RTP). However, data integration requires imaging with radiotherapy-specific patient positioning. Here, we investigated the feasibility and image quality of radiotherapy-customized PET/MRI in head-and-neck cancer (HNC) patients using a dedicated hardware setup. MATERIAL AND
methodsTen HNC patients were examined with simultaneous PET/MRI before treatment, with radiotherapy and diagnostic scan setup, respectively. We tested feasibility of radiotherapy-specific patient positioning and compared the image quality between both setups by pairwise image analysis of
resultsPET/MRI in radiotherapy position was feasible - all patients were successfully examined. ASSD (median/range) of PET and MR contours was 0.6 (0.4-1.2) and 0.9 (0.5-1.3) mm, respectively. For T2-weighted MRI, a reduced SNR of -26.2% (-39.0--11.7) was observed with radiotherapy setup. No significant difference in mean ADC was found.
conclusionsSimultaneous PET/MRI in HNC patients using radiotherapy positioning aids is clinically feasible. Though SNR was reduced, the image quality obtained with a radiotherapy setup meets RTP requirements and the data can thus be used for personalized RTP.
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