MRI-only treatment planning: benefits and challenges

AM Owrangi, PB Greer… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past decade, the application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has increased,
and there is growing evidence to suggest that improvements in the accuracy of target …

Nuts and bolts of 4D-MRI for radiotherapy

B Stemkens, ES Paulson… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly being used in the radiotherapy workflow
because of its superior soft tissue contrast and high flexibility in contrast. In addition to …

MRI-guidance for motion management in external beam radiotherapy: current status and future challenges

C Paganelli, B Whelan, M Peroni… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High precision conformal radiotherapy requires sophisticated imaging techniques to aid in
target localisation for planning and treatment, particularly when organ motion due to …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetic resonance imaging in precision radiation therapy for lung cancer

H Bainbridge, A Salem, RHN Tijssen… - … lung cancer research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Radiotherapy remains the cornerstone of curative treatment for inoperable locally advanced
lung cancer, given concomitantly with platinum-based chemotherapy. With poor overall …

Respiratory motion‐resolved, self‐gated 4D‐MRI using rotating cartesian k‐space (ROCK)

F Han, Z Zhou, M Cao, Y Yang, K Sheng… - Medical physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To propose and validate a respiratory motion resolved, self‐gated (SG) 4D‐MRI
technique to assess patient‐specific breathing motion of abdominal organs for radiation …

A modern review of the uncertainties in volumetric imaging of respiratory‐induced target motion in lung radiotherapy

I Vergalasova, J Cai - Medical physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy has become a critical component for the treatment of all stages and types of
lung cancer, often times being the primary gateway to a cure. However, given that radiation …

Investigation of undersampling and reconstruction algorithm dependence on respiratory correlated 4D-MRI for online MR-guided radiation therapy

NJ Mickevicius, ES Paulson - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of undersampling and reconstruction
algorithm on the total processing time and image quality of respiratory phase-resolved 4D …

Multi‐parametric MRI for radiotherapy simulation

T Li, J Wang, Y Yang, CK Glide‐Hurst, N Wen… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an important imaging modality in the field of
radiotherapy (RT) in the past decade, especially with the development of various novel MRI …

Respiratory motion management using a single rapid MRI scan for a 0.35 T MRI‐Linac system

S Chen, C Eldeniz, TJ Fraum, DR Ludwig… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background MRI has a rapidly growing role in radiation therapy (RT) for treatment planning,
real‐time image guidance, and beam gating (eg, MRI‐Linac). Free‐breathing 4D‐MRI is …

A self-sorting coronal 4D-MRI method for daily image guidance of liver lesions on an MR-LINAC

T van de Lindt, JJ Sonke, M Nowee, E Jansen… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Novel hybrid MR-LINAC devices provide MRI's superior soft-tissue contrast in the
treatment room and thus have the potential to increase accuracy of liver stereotactic body …