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102 Treatment planning part III
(a) (b)
Figure 5.6 (a) Results of fully automated atlas-based segmentation of the left and right liver lobes using the MIM 6 (MIM Software Inc., Cleveland, OH) software package. (b) Atlas-based segmentation followed by manual correction (shaded areas).
Figure 5.7 Three-dimensional liver volume generated with contours on only six axial CT slices using the free DICOM viewer OsiriX 5.8.2 (Osirix Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland).
5.10 Treatment planning calculations / 5.10.1 Lobar therapy 103
=
V
67mL
15.8%
=
V
122mL
28.7%
q2
986mL 424mL
V
+
5.10 TREATMENT PLANNING CALCULATIONS
is section functions as a guide that will pro­vide instructive examples of radioembolization treatment planning in both lobar and segmental therapies. Dierent treatment planning models are considered for both resin and glass microspheres.
5.10.1 LOBAR THER APY
As a surgeon aims to resect a margin of normal parenchyma surrounding a liver tumor, radioembo­lization is oen purposefully nonselective, so as to treat microscopic metastatic disease. Patients with liver metastases are usually noncirrhotic and have a greater functional hepatic reserve, and are therefore commonly treated with microsphere infusion to an entire hepatic lobe. Lobar therapy is also desirable in the setting of liver metastases due to the propensity for multifocal disease, making superselective infu­sion impractical. It should be noted that this meth­odology applies to HCC patients with multifocal disease in the absence of clinical and serologic indi­cators of severe underlying liver disease. However, in the setting of underlying liver impairment, mini­mizing nontarget embolization to nontumor hepatic tissue is preferred, so as to preserve hepatic function (Salem and urston, 2006).
5.10.1.1 Example case
A 61-year-old female presents with lung cancer and four metastatic lesions to the le hepatic lobe. ere is no serologic or radiologic evidenceof cir­rhosis or biliary obstruction. Figure 5.8a shows a hepatic protocol CT of one centrallynecrotic met­astatic lesion in the le hepatic lobe, with corre­sponding hypermetabolic activity by CT (Figure 5.8b). In all treatment planning sce­narios (1–4 below) a le lobar therapy is assumed using conventional anatomic boundaries. Each lobe was contoured in three dimensions to deter­mine relative volumes of the le lobe, right lobe, and total liver (Figure 5.8c).
e volume of the le lobe tumors can be
contoured based on the contrast-enhanced CT or
18
FDG-PET/CT (Figure 5.8a and b). In this par-
ticular case, the tumor is not avidly enhancing
18
FDG-PET/
on the portal venous phase CT and manual segmentation of the CT image set would be lim­ited to corresponding hypodensity visualized in
18
Figure 5.8a. e
FDG-PET/CT identies the tumor as centrally necrotic and highly FDG­avid along its periphery. Due to these dierences, manual contouring from contrast-enhanced CT and semiautomated threshold-based contouring based on PET/CT yielded le lobe tumor vol­umes of 67 and 122 mL, respectively. ese vol­umes include out-of-slice lesions not visualized in Figure 5.8.
5.10.1.2 Scenario 1: Empiric model
for resin microspheres
Based on these measurements, the percent­age tumor inltration in the liver is as follows in Equations 5.15 and 5.16 for the tumor volumetry performed on CT and PET/CT, respectively:
tumor,CT
tumor,PET
=
I
I
It is important to note in Equations 5.15 and
5.16 that the percent inltration was calculated only for the lobe to be treated, that is, using the vol­ume of tumor and volume of normal liver within the le lobe only. As denoted in Table 5.4, the rec- ommended whole-liver treatment dosage (A for this level of inltration is 2.0 and 2.5 GBq, for
15.8% and 28.7% tumor inltration, respectively. Recall that the empiric model is dened for whole­liver therapy and the dosage must be scaled for the treated lobe. Equation 5.17 shows this calculation for the 2.5 GBq prescription:
GBq GB
AA
() ()
GBq
e nal step illustrated in Equation 5.17 is crit-
ical. is can be appreciated using Equation 5.3 to
tumor
+
VV
tumornormal
=
tumor
+
VV
tumornormal
=⋅
emp
424mL
424mL
V
wholeliver
 
424mL
treated
=
0.75GBq
100%
100%
.5
=
 
(5.15
(5.16)
emp
(5.17)
)
)
104 Treatment planning part III
BS
20
50
(c) (d)
(a) (b)
Figure 5.8 (a) Hepatic protocol CT performed on a patient with lung cancer metastases to the liver. A centrally necrotic metastatic lesion is present in the lateral left hepatic lobe (a) and correspond­ing hypermetabolic activity by 18FDG-PET/CT is shown in (b). Automatic contouring of the lesion was performed in (b) based on a threshold of 40% of SUV used to contour both the left and right lobe volume (white line) as well as the tumor based (blue line) on anatomical boundaries. (d) Pretreatment normal left lobe tissue region (white line).
99m
Tc-MAA SPECT with tumor boundary (blue line) and
calculate the average absorbed dose to the le liver lobe if the step in Equation 5.17 is not performed. Applying a density of 1.05 kg/L to this patients’ 424 mL le lobe, we obtain a mass of 0.445 kg. A dosage of 2.5 GBq, according to Equation 5.3, would yield an average absorbed dose of 280 Gy to the lobe. is level of absorbed dose would likely result in severe toxicity in the uninvolved tissues of that lobe.
(blue line). (c) The hepatic protocol CT was
max
1.62 m (5 feet, 4 inches). erefore, her body surface area can be calculated according to Equation 5.6:
0.72
.725
.425
A(m )0.2025 height (m)
0.425
weight (kg)
0.2025 1.62 (m)64(kg)
=
1.68m
2
One must keep in mind that the units of height
(m) and weight (kg) are critical as shown in
5.10.1.3 Scenario 2: Resin microspheres using the BSAmodel
Now let us change gears and consider the BSA treat­ment planning model for this scenario. is female patient has a weight of 64 kg (141 lb.) and a height of
Equation 5.18:
A
bsa
=−+
GBq BSA 0.2
()
=+
1.68–0.2 
=
1.767GBq
V
tumor
+
VV
tumornormal
122 mL 424 mL
 
(5.19)
(5.18)
5.10 Treatment planning calculations / 5.10.1 Lobar therapy 105
()
gl
DM
0.45
=
FU
T
0.50
=
In Equation 5.19, the BSA dosage (A
) has been
BSA
calculated based on the tumor volumes identied
18
using
FDG-PET/CT. A
would be slightly lower
BSA
had the tumor volumes from contrast-enhanced CT been used.
Once again, the BSA model is dened for
whole-liver therapy and the dosage (A
) must be
BSA
scaled for the treated lobe. is process is shown in Equation 5.20. Note that the nal recommended treatment activity using the BSA method (0.53 GBq) is less than when the empiric method is used (0.75 GBq):
V
GBq GBq
AA
=⋅
() ()
BSA
1.767GBq
=⋅
=
0.53GBq
 
V
 
986 mL424 mL
treated
wholeliver
424 mL
 
+
 
(5.20)
5.10.1.4 Scenario 3: Glass microspheres using the recommended treatment planning method
Treatment planning for the le lobe therapy of the same patient using glass microspheres is consid­erably more straightforward. e percent tumor burden is not necessary and the solution is depen­dent only on the total mass of tissue in the le lobe:
0.445 kg. In fact, the most dicult part is select-
ing an absorbed dose endpoint within the recom­mended 80–150 Gy range.
For the purposes of this example, selecting a conservative 100 Gy absorbed dose treatment end­point, we obtain
0
=
=
49.98(J s)
100Gy0.445 kg
49.98
0.89GBq
Gy (kg)
av
=
GBq
A
()
Note that the absorbed dose endpoint shall be selected based on the many clinical and sero­logic factors discussed in the case introduction. However, in this patient without chronic liver
iver
(5.21)
disease or biliary obstruction, any endpoint in 100–120 Gy would likely be appropriate.
5.10.1.5 Scenario 4: Resin microspheres using the partition model
Lobar therapies will result in microsphere deposi­tion in normal liver parenchyma and microsphere deposition in the tumor according to the T:N ratio. e partition model accounts for measured T:N aswell as normal liver and tumor volumes to design a patient-specic treatment plan. Figure
5.8d describes the measurement process of T:N
following lobar infusion of 150 MBq of formed 2 weeks before treatment with the catheter tip positioned carefully at the expected treatment location. Tumor contours from the metabolically active region on been copied onto the (Figure 5.8d). Areas of uninvolved liver are also shown. T:N was calculated in this case according to Equation 5.4 to be 2.8:1. Based on the prether­apy MAA mapping procedure, a lung SF for this patient was measured to be 5%. With this infor­mation, we can calculate the FU in tumor and uninvolved liver.
To compute the FU, we must determine the
volume of uninvolved parenchyma in the le lobe (V
normal
Table 5.5. If we assume tumor volumes based on
18
FDG-PET/CT, then V
mL. e corresponding mass of uninvolved le lobe parenchyma is 0.317 kg:
FU 1SF
99m
Tc-MAA SPECT/CT imaging. A le
18
FDG-PET/CT (Figure 5.8b) have
99m
99m
Tc-MAA was per-
Tc-MAA SPECT image set
), which was not previously included in
= 424–122 mL = 302
normal
V
=−
()
normal
=−
10.05
()
1SF
=−
()
tumor
1 0.05
=−
()
T:N
 
  
T:N
 
 
normal
VV
⋅+
tumornormal
 
302 mL
⋅+
2.8 122 mL 302 mL
V
tumor
N
⋅+
VV
tumornormal
2.8 122mL
2.8 122mL 302mL
⋅+
   
 
(5.22)
 
(5. 2 3)
106 Treatment planning part III
()
yk
0.77GBq
rt
DM
0n
()
Table 5.5 Volumetric measurements of the patient presented in Figure 5.8
Structure Volume (mL) Mass (kg)
Total liver 1,410 1.480 Total right lobe Total left lobe Left lobe tumor, manually contoured
from CT
Left lobe tumor, automatically measured
Right lobe tumor 0 mL 0 kg
Note: The patient has a weight of 64 kg (141 lb.) and a height of 1.62 m (5 feet, 4 inches).
a
b
18
from
0.4 · SUVmax
Mass calculated by multiplying volume (L) by the density of liver tissue, 1.05 (kg/L) (ICRU, Photon, Electron, Proton and Neutron Interaction Data for Body Tissues, International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, 1992). Includes contributions from uninvolved tissue and tumor tissue.
b
b
FDG-PET/CT with threshold =
986 1.035 424 0.445 67 0.070
122 0.128
a
We can now determine the activity required to reach a tumor-absorbed dose endpoint as shown in Equation 5.24. Given that this patient has met­astatic liver cancer with no underlying chronic liver disease, a tumor-absorbed dose of 150 Gy for radioembolization using resin microspheres is appropriate:
G
tumo
=
GBq
A
()
0
150Gy0.128(kg)
()
=
=
()
49.98 FU
49.98 0.50
umor
tumor
g
(5.24)
Assuming accuracy of T:N measurement, a dosage of 0.77 GBq will result in a 150 Gy aver­age tumor dose. However, this dosage must still be back substituted into Equation 5.12 to ensure that normal liver toxicity thresholds are not exceeded. is is illustrated in
D
normal
A
Gy
=
()
0.77GBq 49.98 0.45
=
=
55Gy
⋅⋅
M(kg)
normal
⋅⋅
()
0.317(kg)
ormal
(5.25)
GBq 49.98 FU
As previously discussed, the maximum tol­erable dose to normal, noncirrhotic, liver tissue from radioembolization is approximately 80 Gy. A treatment dosage of 0.77 GBq in this case is likely to be safe, particularly in the setting of a le-lobe
therapy due to the small fraction of liver tissue irra­diated. is particular point is carefully detailed in
Chapter 8.
5.10.1.6 Other considerations
Each case above represented an example of treat­ment planning for a single-session therapy. Fractionation of radioembolization treatments is a recommended practice, which may decrease tox­icity to normal liver (Salem and urston, 2006; Cremonesi et al., 2008). Multicycle therapy will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 8.
5.10.2 SELECTIVE THERAPY
Segmental and selective therapies will result in microsphere deposition in tumor and normal tis­sues within the segment according to T:N and should yield little or no deposition outside of that segment except in cases of reux. While outside the scope of this chapter, vascular planning for segmental therapy has been discussed elsewhere (Salem and urston, 2006; Riaz et al., 2011) and in Chapter 3. Instead, this section will focus pri­marily on dosimetric aspects of selective therapy. In all cases of lobar therapy reviewed in the previ­ous section, treatment planning was always depen­dent on the volume of the treated lobe. In selective and segmental therapy, one must instead identify the volume of tissue perfused by the treatment that may consist of only tumor or tumor and normal liver tissue within one or more segments.
5.10 Treatment planning calculations / 5.10.2 Selective therapy 107
As shown in Figure 5.9, the patient has a 22 cm solitary liver metastasis from parotid adenoid
Figure 5.9 Contrast-enhanced CT of a patient with a 22 cm solitary liver metastasis from parotid ACC. Contrast-enhanced CT and pretreatment angiography suggest that the tumor is well perfused and solid, with no substantial areas of necrosis.
cystic carcinoma (ACC). e patient’s total liver volume is 3500 mL, with 2200 mL attribut­able to tumor. Contrast-enhanced CT and pre­treatment angiography suggest that the tumor is well perfused and solid, with no substantial areas of necrosis. is patient was referred for radioembolization using resin microspheres. Unfortunately, this case represents a clinical and technical challenge owing to the large tumor size. Targeting of this patient’s entire tumor would result in a subtumoricidal response, even if the entire 3 GBq resin microsphere dosage was deliv­ered. erefore, the tumor was treated in mul­tiple stages. Figure 5.10a shows the pretreatment angiography with the catheter positioned in the right hepatic artery and two dominant branches supplying the tumor. Figure 5.10b shows a selec- tive segmental right hepatic arteriogram prior to
99m
Tc-MAA injection. e
99m
Tc-MAA SPECT/ CT in Figure 5.11 shows the volume of tumor perfused to be 48% of the total tumor volume. Since MAA deposited almost exclusively in the tumor, Equation 5.3 could be used directly to determine the dosage necessary to reach a 120 Gy endpoint in 48% of the tumor volume:
(a) (b)
Figure 5.10 (a) Pretreatment angiography with the catheter positioned in the right hepatic artery and two dominant branches supplying the tumor. (b) Selective segmental right hepatic arteriogram prior
99m
to
Tc-MAA injection.
108 Treatment planning part III
() ()
Gykg
A
DM
Figure 5.11
volume of tumor perfused at the catheter loca­tion shown in Figure 5.10b. Perfused volume of MAA was measured to be 48% of the total tumor volume.
99m
Tc-MAA SPECT/CT showing the
GBq
()
0
tumortumor
=
120Gy0.482.2L 1.05(kg/L)
=
2.66GBq
=
49.98
⋅⋅
()
()
49.98
(5.26)
Large tumor size is certainly not the only rea­son to treat in stages. A segmental approach to the treatment of multifocal disease is also an excellent option, which can reduce toxicity in normal liver (Riaz et al., 2011). Figures 5.12a and 5.12b show a hepatic protocol MRI and
111
In Octreotide SPECT of a patient with NET metastases. Multiple meta­static lesions are present throughout the right lobe. Given the absence of underlying chronic liver dis­ease and the typically high ecacy of radioem­bolization in treating NET, a selective multistep approach was employed. A lateral right hepatic artery branch was selected (Figure 5.12c and d)
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Figure 5.12 (a) Hepatic protocol MRI and (b) neuroendocrine metastases to the liver. Multiple metastatic lesions are present throughout the right lobe. (c) Angiogram showing right hepatic arterial vasculature. (d) Selective microcatheter positioning in lateral right hepatic arterial branch that, based on pretreatment posterior half of the right lobe volume.
111
In octreotide SPECT performed on a patient with
99m
Tc-MAA SPECT, perfused the
Figure 5.13 Posttreatment 90Y PET/CT verifying that the radioembolization dosage was delivered to the posterior half of the right hepatic lobe.
that, based on pretreatment
99m
Tc-MAA SPECT, perfused approximately 50% of the right lobe vol­ume. Treatment planning was performed accord­ing to the BSA model for radioembolization using resin microspheres. e dosage recommended by the BSA model was reduced by 50% due to the esti­mated perfused volume of the treatment territory. Following delivery of 0.81 GBq of 90Y, a 90Y PET/ CT scan was performed verifying limited micro­sphere deposition outside of the treatment zone (Figure5.13). One month later, this patient under- went selective radioembolization of the remaining untreated lesions in the anterior right lobe.
5.11 CONCLUSIONS
Treatment planning for radioembolization is not only a multidisciplinary process requiring input from dierent medical specialists but also a process that requires signicant experience. Dierences between patients, even among those with the same disease type, can vastly eect the treatment decision and planning process. ese dierences necessitate a patient-specic approach to treatment planning. is chapter is but a brief overview of the fac­tors that must be considered by the interventional radiologists, medical physicists, nuclear medicine physicians, and/or radiation oncologists involved in the therapy. In addition to the instruction provided in this chapter, the most important suggestion that the authors wish to convey is the importance of
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