The Australian magnetic resonance imaging–linac program

PJ Keall, M Barton, S Crozier - Seminars in radiation oncology, 2014 - Elsevier
The Australian magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)–Linac program is a $16-million
government-funded project to advance the science and clinical practice of exquisite real …

Medical physics challenges in clinical MR-guided radiotherapy

C Kurz, G Buizza, G Landry, F Kamp, M Rabe… - Radiation …, 2020 - Springer
The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for guidance in external beam
radiotherapy has faced significant research and development efforts in recent years. The …

The potential for an enhanced role for MRI in radiation-therapy treatment planning

P Metcalfe, GP Liney, L Holloway… - … in cancer research …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The exquisite soft-tissue contrast of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has meant that the
technique is having an increasing role in contouring the gross tumor volume (GTV) and …

Future of medical physics: real‐time MRI‐guided proton therapy

BM Oborn, S Dowdell, PE Metcalfe, S Crozier… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With the recent clinical implementation of real‐time MRI‐guided x‐ray beam therapy
(MRXT), attention is turning to the concept of combining real‐time MRI guidance with proton …

ICRU REPORT 97: MRI-guided radiation therapy using MRI-linear accelerators

PJ Keall, CK Glide-Hurst, M Cao, P Lee… - Journal of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), since its
inception in 1925, has had as its principal objective the development of internationally …

Optimizing MR-guided radiotherapy for breast cancer patients

ML Groot Koerkamp, JE Vasmel, NS Russell… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Current research in radiotherapy (RT) for breast cancer is evaluating neoadjuvant as
opposed to adjuvant partial breast irradiation (PBI) with the aim of reducing the volume of …

Monte Carlo study of ionization chamber magnetic field correction factors as a function of angle and beam quality

VN Malkov, DWO Rogers - Medical Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To use EGSnrc Monte Carlo simulations for magnetic field dosimetry to determine
optimal measurement orientations, calculate beam quality conversion factors for 32 …

Reference dosimetry in MRI-linacs: evaluation of available protocols and data to establish a Code of Practice

J De Pooter, I Billas, L de Prez, S Duane… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
With the rapid increase in clinical treatments with MRI-linacs, a consistent, harmonized and
sustainable ground for reference dosimetry in MRI-linacs is needed. Specific for reference …

A formalism for reference dosimetry in photon beams in the presence of a magnetic field

B van Asselen, SJ Woodings, SL Hackett… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A generic formalism is proposed for reference dosimetry in the presence of a magnetic field.
Besides the regular correction factors from the conventional reference dosimetry formalisms …

Charged particle transport in magnetic fields in EGSnrc

VN Malkov, DWO Rogers - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To accurately and efficiently implement charged particle transport in a magnetic
field in EGSnrc and validate the code for the use in phantom and ion chamber simulations …