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TU‐FG‐202‐00: Advances and Innovations in Image Guided Brachytherapy
Author(s) -
Cormack Robert
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.4957561
Subject(s) - brachytherapy , workflow , medical physics , medicine , radiation treatment planning , modality (human–computer interaction) , magnetic resonance imaging , prostate brachytherapy , radiology , computer science , radiation therapy , artificial intelligence , database
The greater use of magnetic resonance imaging (MR) in brachytherapy, for both image based planning and image guided procedures, presents a number of challenges for the physicist involved. MR is widely acknowledged as the imaging modality of choice to appreciate a patient's pelvic anatomy and is thus used more often for brachytherapy of gynecologic and prostate cancers. Incorporating MR in brachytherapy treatments requires changes throughout the clinical workflow from implantation through target definition, applicator digitization and post‐implant evaluation. These presentations will review the some of the concerns encountered in image based brachytherapy environment, highlight the challenges to incorporating more information from MR, and discuss some of the technical developments underway to facilitate the further use of MR in brachytherapy. Learning Objectives: 1. To review the rationale for incorporating MR in image based brachytherapy for treatment of gynecologic and prostate cancers. 2. To review the technical challenges encountered when using brachytherapy devices in an MR environment. 3. To discuss some developments to facilitate MR based planning and guidance.J. Cunha, Phillips Healthcare