ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting & Exhibition ○ 20-26 April 2013 ○ Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
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Radiation therapy of moving organs is challenging, as the precise internal motion patterns often cannot be deduced from external anatomical landmarks. To avoid unnecessarily large safety margins and to more precisely target the therapy, real-time imaging of the target structure and the surrounding risk structures is therefore desirable. Recently, several different systems for MR-guided radiotherapy have been proposed which aim to perform the therapy within an MR magnet. In this course, the different technical approaches are presented, and the first clinical results will be shown. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clinicians and physicists with an interest in oncology and/or hybrid MR systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to: |
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PROGRAM |
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Moderators: Michael Bock, Ph.D. & Tim Leiner, M.D., Ph.D., E.B.C.R. |
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