APBI 2016

Multi-institutional study on target volume delineation variation in breast radiotherapy in the presence of guidelines

13 radiation oncologists (observers), 8 patients

CT slices of 3 patients with delineated excision cavity contours of all 13 observers

- even in the presence of delineation guidelines considerable delineation variation is present (0.24 < SD < 1.22 cm) - presence of clips or seroma reduced interobserver variation (0.24 < SD < 0.62 cm)

van Mourik et al. Radiother Oncol 94:286-91. 2010