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Simon Goldsworthy1, Marcus Leslie-Dakers2, Steven Higgins2
1Radiotherapy, Beacon Centre, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton, UK; Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Purpose:
The purpose of the article was to determine the impact of Dual Registration (DR) image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) on clinical judgement and treatment delivery for patients with oropharyngeal cancer before implementation.
Methods:
Ninety cone beam computed tomography images from 10 retrospective patients were matched using standard clipbox registration (SCR) and DR. Three IGRT specialist radiographers performed all registrations and evaluated by intraclass correlation to determine inter-rater agreement, Bland-Altman with 95% limits of agreement to determine differences between SCR and DR procedures, changes in clinical judgment, time taken to perform registrations, and radiographer satisfaction.
Results:
Inter-rater agreement between radiographers using both SCR and DR was high (0.867 and 0.917, P ≤ .0001). The 95% limits of agreement between SCR and DR procedures in the mediolateral, cranial-caudal, and ventrodorsal translational directions were -6.40 to +4.91, -7.49 to +6.05, and -7.00 to +5.44 mm, respectively. The mediolateral direction demonstrated significant proportional bias (P ≤ .001) suggesting non-agreement between SCR and DR. Eighty percent of DR matches resulted in a change in clinical judgement to ensure maximum target coverage. Mean registration times for SCR and DR were 94 and 115 seconds, respectively, and radiographers found DR feasible and satisfactory.
Conclusion:
The standard method using SCR in patients with oropharyngeal cancer underestimates the deviation in the lower neck. In these patients, DR is an effective IGRT tool to ensure target coverage of the inferior neck nodes and has demonstrated acceptability to radiotherapy clinical practice.
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