ESTRO course on Image Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice 2018

Normal Tissue Characterization: Which contours to use?

Huang/Hope

End of vessels/start of heart through pericardium

Nishimura

“The heart was contoured along with the pericardial sac, and the superior aspect (or base) began at the level of the inferior aspect of the aortic arch (aortopulmonary window) and extended inferiorly to the apex of the heart.”

Speirs, Bradley, 0617 Wheatley Atlas