{"doi":"10.1016/j.phro.2025.100701","title":"New rectum dose surface mapping methodology to identify rectal subregions associated with toxicities following prostate cancer radiotherapy","abstract":"Background and purpose: Growing evidence suggests that spatial dose variations across the rectal surface influence toxicity risk after radiotherapy. Existing methodologies employ a fixed, arbitrary physical extent for rectal dose mapping, limiting their analysis. We developed a method to standardise rectum contours, unfold them into 2D cylindrical surface maps, and identify subregions where higher doses increase rectal toxicities. Materials and methods: Data of 1,048 patients with prostate cancer from the REQUITE study were used. Deep learning based automatic segmentations were generated to ensure consistency. Rectum length was standardised using linear transformations superior and inferior to the prostate. The automatic contours were validated against the manual contours through contour variation assessment with cylindrical mapping. Voxel-based analysis of the dose surface maps for the manual and automatic contours against individual rectal toxicities was performed using Student's t permutation test and Cox Proportional Hazards Model (CPHM). Significance was defined by permutation testing. Results: -test showed significance (p < 0.05) in the lower posterior for clinical-reported proctitis and patient-reported bowel urgency. Univariable CPHM identified a 3 % increased risk per Gy for clinician-reported proctitis and a 2 % increased risk per Gy for patient-reported bowel urgency in the lower posterior. No other endpoints were significant. Conclusion: We developed a methodology that unfolds the rectum to a 2D surface map. 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