Practical Guide to MR-Linac

Indra J Das, PhD is Professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. He was recently selected by the AAPM to be the 2022 recipient of the Edith H. Quimby Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medical Physics. He is co-editor of Basic Radiotherapy Physics and Biology, 2e (2021).Filippo Alongi, MD is the Head of  the Advanced Radiation Oncology Department at IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Cancer Center and Professor at the University of Brescia, Italy.Poonam Yadav, PhD is Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.Bharat B. Mittal, MD is Chair and the William N. Brand, MD, Professor of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

• Section I: General.- Introduction.- Role of MRI in Radiation Oncology.- Clinical necessity & Patient Selection.- MRL: Education and Training.- Section II: MRL Physics and Technology.- Imaging sequence.- Motion Management and Tracking.- Synthetic CT and dose calculation.- Treatment planning.- View Ray system.- Elekta Unity System.- Aurora, Magneton system.- Section III: Clinical.- Oligometastatic.- Pancreas.- Liver.- Lung.- Prostate.- Gynecology.- Breast.- Spine.- Brain.- Head and neck.- Sarcoma.- Section IV: Future and outlook.- New MRL System.- Low field Imaging.- AI, Radiomics and Texture analysis.- MRL and biomarkers.