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What is your method for delineation of the hippocampal avoidance structure in patients who are unable to undergo MRI?

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Radiation Oncology · Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center Warrenville
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The hypothetical benefit of conformal avoidance of the hippocampus during cranial irradiation centers on the memory-specific and radiosensitive neural stem cell compartment within the hippocampal dentate gyrus. The hippocampal dentate gyrus is a gray matter structure surrounded by white matter struc...

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