Pancreatic gross tumor volume contouring on computed tomography (CT) compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Results of an international contouring conference.

Journal: Practical radiation oncology
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Abstract

PURPOSE: Accurate identification of the gross tumor volume (GTV) in pancreatic adenocarcinoma is challenging. We sought to understand differences in GTV delineation using pancreatic computed tomography (CT) compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Authors

  • William A Hall
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Electronic address: whall@mcw.edu.
  • Hanne D Heerkens
    UMC Utrecht, Department of Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  • Eric S Paulson
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • Gert J Meijer
    UMC Utrecht, Department of Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  • Alexis N Kotte
    UMC Utrecht, Department of Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
  • Paul Knechtges
    Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • Parag J Parikh
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Michael F Bassetti
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
  • Percy Lee
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
  • Katharine L Aitken
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Royal Marsden, London, England.
  • Manisha Palta
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States.
  • Sten Myrehaug
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
  • Eugene J Koay
    Department of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
  • Lorraine Portelance
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
  • Edgar Ben-Josef
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Beth A Erickson
    Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.