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  • Radiation oncology
  • Medical physics
  • Head and neck cancer treatment

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  • Radiotherapy for head and neck cancers can cause swallowing dysfunction due to pharyngeal mucosal damage.
  • Conventional treatment planning often treats the pharynx as a single structure, potentially leading to suboptimal dose distribution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a dysphagia-optimized knowledge-based planning (DO-KBP) model.
  • To improve swallowing structure sparing by incorporating individual pharyngeal constrictors into treatment planning.

Main Methods:

  • Trained a conventional pharyngeal knowledge-based planning (P-KBP) model on 175 head and neck cases.
  • Augmented the P-KBP model with 36 oropharyngeal cases featuring delineated constrictors to create the DO-KBP model.
  • Evaluated both models on 25 test patients, comparing dosimetric parameters and physician preference.

Main Results:

  • The DO-KBP model significantly reduced mean dose to the inferior constrictor (36.52 Gy to 19.52 Gy) and superior/middle constrictors (51.89 Gy to 47.46 Gy).
  • Minor, clinically acceptable increases in dose to organs at risk (spinal cord PRV, cochlea, mandible, brachial plexus) were observed.
  • Plan homogeneity remained equivalent, and DO-KBP plans were preferred in blinded physician review.

Conclusions:

  • Targeted data augmentation with individually contoured constrictors significantly enhances sparing of swallowing structures.
  • The DO-KBP model achieves clinically meaningful improvements without compromising overall plan quality or exceeding OAR dose thresholds.
  • Focused data augmentation is an effective strategy for optimizing radiotherapy planning for head and neck cancer patients.