The Impact of MRI on Radiation Oncology Graduate Medical Education

With the development and dissemination of devices combining MRI with a linear accelerator (MR-linacs), and with the increasing use of MRI in simulation and brachytherapy, MRI use in radiation oncology is rapidly expanding. MRI use is also transforming, moving from data acquired in radiology and registered to CT simulation scans at the time of contouring to data that radiation oncologists acquire in their own departments and then must rapidly interpret for adaptive therapy. This transformation creates a need to not only understand MRI-based anatomy but also ensure patient and staff safety during acquisition of MR images and to consider principles in underlying MR physics that impact image quality and applications of the technology.
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Opinion Source Type: research