Monte Carlo characterization of skin doses in 6 MV transverse field MRIlinac systems: effect of field size, surface orientation, magnetic field strength, and exit bolus

BM Oborn, PE Metcalfe, MJ Butson… - Medical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… skin doses seen in MRI‐guided radiotherapy. In particular, the authors aim to characterize
the skin doses over a larger range of magnetic field strength and x‐ray field size than in the …

MRI/linac integration

JJW Lagendijk, BW Raaymakers… - Radiotherapy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
… be an increase or a decrease depending on the magnetic field strength, electron energies,
field size, the obliquity of the interface and size of the gap compared to the helical path radius […

Evaluation of a commercial MRI Linac based Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm with geant 4

SB Ahmad, A Sarfehnia, MR Paudel, A Kim… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… The choice of the aforementioned field sizes was made because our MRI Linac will focus
primarily on ablative SBRT type treatments where smaller field sizes will be used. …

A high resolution 2D array detector system for small-field MRI-linac applications

M Gargett, B Oborn, SJ Alnaghy, T Causer… - Biomedical Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
… does not significantly change the FWHM (≤0.1 mm), however there is an increase in
penumbral width, particularly on the right hand side of profiles for the smallest field sizes. As the …

Comparison of treatment plans for a high-field MRI-linac and a conventional linac for esophageal cancer

M Nachbar, D Mönnich, P Kalwa, D Zips… - Strahlentherapie …, 2019 - search.proquest.com
… The remaining two cases had a longitudinal extension of 22.0cm and 22.6cm, respectively,
exceeding the maximum superior-inferior field size of 22cm of the MRI-linac. Plan realization …

Experimental characterization of the dose deposition in parallel MRIlinacs at various magnetic field strengths

J Begg, SJ Alnaghy, T Causer, T Alharthi… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… film PDD collected on an Elekta linear accelerator in no magnetic field. The increase in dose
at … field, which was shown to increase with both field size and the magnitude of the magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Dosimetric optimization and commissioning of a high field inline MRI-linac

U Jelen, B Dong, J Begg, N Roberts, B Whelan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
field sizes set in the MLC control software had to be determined. It was obtained by the
measurement of the actual field sizes produced by a set of square fields … as nominal field sizes, …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of a 1.5 T MRI linac fringe field on neighbouring linear accelerators

T Perik, J Kaas, F Wittkämper - Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 2017 - Elsevier
… This study investigates the influence of an MRI linac fringe field on … after changes of the
magnetic field of the MRI linac. … neighbouring linacs and the MR-Linac determines the size of …

Impact of the MLC on the MRI field distortion of a prototype MRIlinac

S Kolling, B Oborn, P Keall - Medical physics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… given field size at the isocenter decreases as the MLC and linac are positioned at larger SID.
Therefore, the MLC aperture was scaled inversely with increasing SID to keep the field size

Beam characterisation of the 1.5 T MRI-linac

SJ Woodings, JJ Bluemink, JHW De Vries… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
MRI-linac penumbra (20%–80%) widths for each field edge for several standard field sizes
are … Also shown is a comparison between the MRI-linac and an Agility 6 MV FFF beam, …