Table 3.

Studies who have applied texture analysis in the context of radiotherapy

Radiotherapic aim	District	Imaging modalities	Treatment type	References (first author, year)
Radiation targeting in RT planning	Head and neck	PET/CT	IMRT	Yu et al, 200972,73
	Prostate	CT	IMRT	Nailon et al, 200829
Tumour response to treatment	Lung	PET	SABR	Pyka et al, 201582
		PET	CRT	Cook et al, 201383
		CT	SABR	Huynh et al, 201685; Mattonen et al, 201479; Mattonen et al, 201580; Mattonen et al, 201681;
		CT	CRT	Coroller et al, 201684
	Oesophagus	PET	CRT	Tixier et al, 201186; Nakajo et al, 201687; Yip, et al 201637
		CT	CRT	Yip et al, 201488
	Head and neck	PET	CRT	El Naqa et al, 200989
		mp-MRI	CRT	Liu et al, 201690; Scalco et al, 201691
		DCE-MRI	IMRT	Jansen et al, 201663
	Prostate	T2w-MRI	EBRT	Gnep et al, 201694
	Rectum	PET	CRT	Bundschuh et al, 201495
		T2w-MRI	CRT	De Cecco et al, 201596
		mp-MRI	CRT	Nie et al, 201697
	Brain	MRI	SRT	Nardone et al, 201699
	Soft-tissue sarcoma	CT	CRT	Tian et al, 201598
Radiation-induced effects on normal tissue	Lung	CT	SBRT	Mattonen et al, 201479; Mattonen et al, 201580;
		CT	Oesophageal RT	Cunliffe et al, 2015100
	Parotid glands	Ultrasound	Head–neck RT	Yang et al, 2012101
		CT	IMRT	Scalco et al, 2013102; Scalco et al, 2015104; Pota et al, 2015103

CRT, chemoradiotherapy; DCE-MRI, dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI; EBRT, external beam radiotherapy; IMRT, intensity-modulated radiotherapy; mp-MRI, multiparametric MRI; PET, positron emission tomography; RT, radiotherapy; SABR, stereotactic ablative radiation therapy; SRT, stereotactic radiotherapy; T2w, T₂ weighted.