Table 3.
Survival and toxicity outcomes
| Study name | Citations | Functional imaging agent | Intervention aim | Treatment | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improve standard RTtarget delineation | Facilitate doseescalation | Facilitate organ at risk sparing | Map recurrence & RT treated volumes | Map functional volumes& RT planning volumes | Map treated functionalvolumes & survival | Map radiomic features& RT volumes | Standard targetvolumes changed | Dose escalation | Functional OAR sparing | |||
| Piroth | [34–37] | F18-FET PET | ||||||||||
| Laouiti | [38] | F18-FET PET | ||||||||||
| Miwa | [39] | F18-FET PET | ||||||||||
| Munck Af Rosenschold | [40, 41] | F18-FET PET | ||||||||||
| Lundemann | [42–44] | F18-FET PET | ||||||||||
| Poulsen | [45, 46] | F18-FET PET | ||||||||||
| Vigil | [52, 53] | C11-MET PET | ||||||||||
| Brinkmann | [59, 61, 61] | F18-FDOPA PET | ||||||||||
| Kim | [66, 68, 86] | DW MRI & DCE MRI | ||||||||||
| Wang | [70] | DTI MRI & BOLD MRI | ||||||||||
| Zhang | [71] | DTT MRI | ||||||||||
| Altabella | [72] | DTI MRI | ||||||||||
| Morin | [74] | DW MRI | ||||||||||
| Opposits | [76] | BOLD MRI | ||||||||||
| Laprie | [77–80] | MRSI | ||||||||||
| Mellon | [82] | MRSI | ||||||||||
| Study name | Max dose | Dose fractionation (Gy / fractions) | Toxicity/OAR dose metric | Survival | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BED (Gy) | BED (Gy) | EQD (Gy) | Median OS Mths | Median PFS Mths | 12 Mths OS % | 12 Mths PFS % | ||||||
| Piroth | 158.4 | 89.3 | 74.4 | 72/30 | No grade 3 or 4 toxicity | 14.8 | 7.8 | 63.6 | 25.4 | |||
| Laouiti | 158.4 | 89.3 | 74.4 | 72/30 | Maximum grade CTCAE acute toxicity was 1 (median), range 0-2 | 38.4 | 28.6 | |||||
| Miwa | 357 | 125.8 | 104.8 | 68/8 | 20 | 13 | 71.2 | 52.6 | ||||
| Munck Af Rosenschold | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | Plan OAR (brain, brain stem...) receive less dose in PET-image guided-VMAT plans | 15 | 6 | |||||
| Lundemann | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | 20.7 | 11.7 | ||||||
| Poulsen | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | 16.5 | 6.5 | ||||||
| Vigil | Not reported but escalated | 20 | 6.7 | |||||||||
| Brinkmann | 172.3 | 95.3 | 79.4 | 76/30 | Grade 3 CNS necrosis was noted in 3 patients (4.4%), 1 patient (1.5%) with pre-existing vision dysfunction had Grade 4 optic nerve dysfunction | 16 | 8.7 | |||||
| Kim | 168.8 | 93.8 | 78.1 | 75/30 | Side effects were similar in incidence to standard therapy | 20 | 90 | |||||
| Wang | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | Plan OAR (white matter tracks) received less dose in functionally optimised plan | |||||||
| Zhang | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | Thecognition dysfunction was mild and the radiation-induced brain oedema was mild to moderate | 17.6 | 76 | 66 | ||||
| Altabella | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | Plan OAR (white matter structures) received less dose in DTI-optimised plans | |||||||
| Morin | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | Plan OAR (hippocampus) received less dose in DW-optimised plans | |||||||
| Opposits | 120 | 72 | 60 | 60/30 | Reduced dose in the functionally active areas of the brain | |||||||
| Laprie | 158.4 | 89.3 | 74.4 | 72/30 | SIB plan OAR (brainstem and brain) received lower doses than CRT plans | |||||||
| Mellon | 168.8 | 93.8 | 78.1 | 75/30 | No observed serious adverse events | |||||||
BED Biological effective dose (alpha/beta = 2), BED Biological effective dose (alpha/beta = 10), EQD Equivalent dose in 2 Gy (alpha/beta = 10), OS Overall survival, PFS Progression free survival, Mths Months, CTCAE Common terminology criteria for adverse events, OAR Organ at risk, SIB Simultaneous -integrated boost, CRT Conformal radiation therapy