Summary

 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma has a higher incidence in China, and it is more common in the southeast coast. MRI and PET-CT are indispensable imaging modalities that can more accurately assess the stage of tumor and guide the treatment planning and evaluation of normal tissue response. The Department of radiation oncology in our hospital has performed the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancer for many years. Has a wealth of clinical experience and a large number of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients. Inclusion criteria: 1. All patients are pathologically confirmed nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 2. KPS score is larger than 60 and no other serious cardiovascular disease that could affect the course of treatment. Exclusion criteria: The expected survival time is less than 1 month, and the general condition is poor and radiotherapy cannot be completed. Take a CT, MRI and upload the data in imaging archive at the time before radiotherapy, during 15-20 fraction, 1 month after radiotherapy, 3 months after radiotherapy, 6 months after radiotherapy, 9 months after radiotherapy, 1 year after radiotherapy.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma has a higher incidence rate in Taizhou city. Taizhou Hospital is the largest general hospital in the local region. It has the largest nasopharyngeal carcinoma resources and can represent the highest level of nasopharyngeal diagnosis and treatment in Taizhou. By analyzing our imaging data, we try to to investigate predictive and prognostic radiomic parameters of treatment and survival outcomes for IMRT treated NPC. Also we are going to correlate the difference in radiomic features between MRI and PET-CT scan in predicting treatment and survival outcomes.


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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the individuals and institutions that have provided data for this collection:

  • University of North Carolina- Special thanks to J. Keith Smith, M.D., Ph.D. and Shanah Kirk from the Department of Radiology. 
  • Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil – Special Thanks to Fabiano Rubião Lucchesi, MD and Natália Del Angelo Aredes
  • University of Chicago- Special thanks to Nicholas Gruszauskas, Ph.D.
  • University of Sheffield - Special thanks to James Catto, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCS from the Department of Oncology.
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY - Special thanks to Hebert A. Vargas Alvarez, MD and Pierre Elnajjar.
  • Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA - Special thanks to John Lemmerman, RT and Kimberly Reiger-Christ, PhD, Cancer Research, Sophia Gordon Cancer Center.
  • University of Southern California- Special thanks to Siamak Daneshmand, MD, from the Department of Urology and Vinay Duddalwar, MD, FRCR from the Department of Radiology.

 


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Image Statistics

 

Modalities

CT, CR, MR, PT

Number of Patients

106

Number of Studies

135

Number of Series

827

Number of Images

78,429

Images Size (GB)40.1

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Kirk, S., Lee, Y., Lucchesi, F. R., Aredes, N. D., Gruszauskas, N., Catto, J., … Lemmerman, J. (2016). Radiology Data from The Cancer Genome Atlas Urothelial Bladder Carcinoma [TCGA-BLCA] collection. The Cancer Imaging Archive. http://doi.org/10.7937/K9/TCIA.2016.8LNG8XDR


Clark K, Vendt B, Smith K, Freymann J, Kirby J, Koppel P, Moore S, Phillips S, Maffitt D, Pringle M, Tarbox L, Prior F. The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA): Maintaining and Operating a Public Information Repository, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 26, Number 6, December, 2013, pp 1045-1057. (paper)

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