Skin dose in longitudinal and transverse linac‐MRIs using Monte Carlo and realistic 3D MRI field models

A Keyvanloo, B Burke, B Warkentin, T Tadic… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… the entry and exit skin dose for linac-MRI system based on … in skin dose in a longitudinal
RBP linac-MR system and the changes in entrance and exit skin doses in a transverse RBP linac

… treatment plans clinically delivered on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-linear accelerator (MR-linac) versus conventional Linac: Predicted and measured skin dose

MH Wang, A Kim, M Ruschin, H Tan… - … in Cancer Research …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
… and conventional linear accelerator. Our findings suggest that skin doses were significantly
greater with magnetic resonance imaging-linear accelerator plans but correlated better with …

Skin dose modeling and measurement in a high field in-line MRI-linac system

M Tai, E Patterson, PE Metcalfe, A Rosenfeld… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… The skin dose values measured experimentally have shown significant differences …
MRI-Linac prototype and the corresponding skin doses by designing the Geant4 model of the MRI-…

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 urn:x-wiley:00942405:media:mp8980:mp8980-math-0001 skin doses … the exit skin dose. …

Effects on skin dose from unwanted air gaps under bolus in an MR-guided linear accelerator (MR-linac) system

CY Huang, B Yang, WW Lam, KK Tang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
… a conventional linac, the most significant skin dose reductions … magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) with a linear accelerator (LINAC), the MR-Linac was designed to perform daily MRI

Electron contamination modeling and skin dose in 6 MV longitudinal field MRIgRT: impact of the MRI and MRI fringe field

BM Oborn, PE Metcalfe, MJ Butson… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… -coil thickness, the fringe field, and the isocenter distance of the linac. The results of this …
not related to skin dose and electron contamination. Hence, no estimates of the skin dose were …

Surface Dose and Skin Toxicity in Low-Magnetic Field MR-Linac

P Yadav, IJ Das - … Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 2022 - redjournal.org
… low-field MR-Linac will not produce higher surface dose which is investigated in this study. …
other treatment parameters affecting the skin dose. A Linac equipped with 6MV FFF photons …

MR-guided breast radiotherapy: feasibility and magnetic-field impact on skin dose

TCF Van Heijst, MD Den Hartogh… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
skin areas are generally involved in breast RT, the purpose of this study is to investigate the
effects on the skin dose, … At the UMC Utrecht a hybrid MRI/linac (MRL) is constructed which …

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
… (ERE), we analyzed, next to the skin dose, which is not only … at the expense of an increased
low dose irradiation volume [15… skin dose for the MRI-linac might be the consequence of MRI

Experimental characterization of magnetically focused electron contamination at the surface of a high‐field inline MRIlinac

NF Roberts, E Patterson, U Jelen, T Causer… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… al.13 predicted high skin dose as a result of the large fringe field of the Australian MRI-linac
magnet. The current work was the first experimental measurements of skin dose, defined at …