Clinical Applications of Magnetic Resonance-Guided Radiotherapy: A Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: Magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) represents a promising new image guidance technology for radiation treatment delivery combining an onboard MRI scanner with radiation delivery technology. By enabling real-time low-field or high-field MRI acquisition, it facilitates improved soft tissue delineation, adaptive treatment, and motion management. Now that MRgRT has been available for nearly a decade, research has shown the technology can be used to effectively shrink treatment margins to either decrease toxicity (in breast, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer) or facilitate dose-escalation and improved oncologic outcomes (in pancreatic and liver cancer), as well as enabling indications that require clear soft tissue delineation and gating (lung and cardiac ablation). In doing so

SUBMITTER: Ladbury C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10251893 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature