Dedicated Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Radiotherapy Clinic

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 644-651

  Karlsson, Mikael ^a   Karlsson, Magnus G ^b   Nyholm, Tufve ^a,b   Amies, Christopher ^c   Zackrisson, Björn ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

MR; MRI; radiotherapy; workflow

Indexed keywords

BEAM MODELING; BONE IMAGING; BORE SIZES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; GEOMETRICAL DISTORTIONS; GEOMETRICAL PRECISION; HEALTHY TISSUES; INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTS; LOGISTICS MODELS; MR; MR IMAGING; MRI; RADIOPAQUE MARKERS; REGISTRATION ERRORS; SOFT TISSUE TUMORS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS; WORKFLOW;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MANAGEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 65449146782     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.01.065     Document Type: Article

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