ESTRO 2022 - Abstract Book

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ESTRO 2022

Results Forty-eight articles were included in the systematic review. These reported a total of 4428 patients with different tumour pathologies (Figure 1). Table 1 presents the investigated categories and significant Fisher test results. Temperature acquisition, i.e., non-continuous or continuous, showed a p-value close to significant (p − value = 0.066). Rate of temperature acquisition was significantly associated with relevant thermal dose descriptors (p − value = 0.035). This means that performing temperature acquisitions faster than five minutes might increase the chance of relating measured temperatures with treatment outcome or toxicity. Moreover, neither spatial distribution nor spatial density of temperature probes/sensors was correlated with finding a thermal dose effect relationship.