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How should the V10 or V12 be defined when evaluating intracranial SRS plans?

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Radiation Oncology · SSM Cancer Center/St Louis CyberKnife

Milano et al., as part of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Working Group on Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy investigating normal tissue complication probability (HyTEC), published a review of 51 studies in 2020 and evaluated the risk of symptomatic radiation necrosis based on a defi...

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Radiation Oncology · City of Hope

I consider V10 and V12 for brain-GTV as this is the way it was done in a report by Minniti et al (Radiat Oncol. 2011 May 15;6:48). However, some of the other studies did use (brain + GTV). In the same report, I believe they looked at statistics per lesion treated.

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Radiation Oncology · Bassett Healthcare

When I collected the data for the paper I authored on 12 Gy volume for GKS I included the brain and GTV as the target receiving 12 Gy, so the GTV was not subtracted out. I also did the analysis on a per lesion basis.

I have always used this number as a predictor for the patient and myself of how like...

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