OC-0425: Clinical experience with stereotactic MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy for pancreatic tumors

Bruynzeel, A.; Lagerwaard, Frank J.; Bohoudi, O.; Tetar, S.; Haasbeek, N.; Oei, S.S.; Slotman, Ben J.; Meijerink, Martijn R.; Senan, Suresh; Palacios, Miguel

doi:10.1016/s0167-8140(17)30867-8

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“…The integration of MRI with radiation treatment machine systems will especially benefit patients with soft tissue lesions that are more difficult to track using conventional on-board techniques (Jaffray 2012, Metcalfe et al 2013, Goyal and Kataria 2014. Encouraging preliminary patient data have been presented for pancreas and gastrointestinal sites using the MRIdian (Bruynzeel et al 2017, Musunuru et al 2017.…”

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Real-time volumetric relative dosimetry for magnetic resonance—image-guided radiation therapy (MR-IGRT)

2018

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The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with linear accelerators (linac) has enabled the use of 3D MR-visible gel dosimeters for real-time verification of volumetric dose distributions. Several iron-based radiochromic 3D gels were created in-house then imaged and irradiated in a pre-clinical 1.5 T-7 MV MR-Linac. MR images were acquired using a range of balanced-fast field echo (b-FFE) sequences during irradiation to assess the contrast and dose response in irradiated regions and to minimize the presence of MR artifacts. Out of four radiochromic 3D gel formulations, the FOX 3D gel was found to provide superior MR contrast in the irradiated regions. The FOX gels responded linearly with respect to real-time dose and the signal remained stable post-irradiation for at least 20 min. The response of the FOX gel also was found to be unaffected by the radiofrequency and gradient fields created by the b-FFE sequence during irradiation. A reusable version of the FOX gel was used for b-FFE sequence optimization to reduce artifacts by increasing the number of averages at the expense of temporal resolution. Regardless of the real-time MR sequence used, the FOX 3D gels responded linearly to dose with minimal magnetic field effects due to the strong 1.5 T field or gradient fields present during imaging. These gels can easily be made in-house using non-reusable and reusable formulations depending on the needs of the clinic, and the results of this study encourage further applications of 3D gels for MR-IGRT applications.

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