Medical Physics Seminar – Monday, October 1, 2018
Reserved for WISELI: Toward High Precision MRI in Simulation and Treatment Delivery
Carri Glide-Hurst, PhD, DABR, FAAPM (hosted by Amy Weisman)
Director of Translational Research Radiation Oncology Henry Ford Cancer Institute Detroit, MI
Due to its excellent soft tissue contrast, MRI has emerged as a primary radiation therapy treatment planning modality for many disease sites. The advent of MR-guided radiation therapy (MRgRT) has shown incredible promise for localization, real-time monitoring, and tumor tracking. As we move toward MR-only patient models for treatment planning and delivery, a need exists to fully quantify the uncertainties to ensure high fidelity MR-guided radiation therapy. This talk will provide an overview of these uncertainties, highlight strategies to mitigate them, and demonstrate future applications of on-board functional imaging, with the overarching goal of implementing high precision MR-SIM and MR-IGRT.