MRI for Radiotherapy Planning, Delivery, and Response Assessment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Liney, Gary (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), van der Heide, Uulke (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Radiotherapy.; Oncology .; Oncology.

This book provides, for the first time, a unified approach to the application of MRI in radiotherapy that incorporates both a physics and a clinical perspective. Readers will find detailed information and guidance on the role of MRI in all aspects of treatment, from dose planning, with or without CT...

Table of Contents:

• Part I MRI for Planning: Basics of MRI and Radiotherapy
• Patient set-up & positioning
• Guidelines for MRI acquisition
• Quality Assurance
• Clinical Sites
• Part II MRI during treatment: Functional imaging& response assessment
• Adaptive radiotherapy
• Part III MR-only Radiotherapy: Challenges & requirements
• Atlas based methods
• Direct conversion
• Part IV Real-time guidance: First clinical results
• MRI-Linac systems
• Proton therapy
• Part V MR in RT 2017: Selection of papers from 5th International MR in RT Symposium.