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ArticleQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2019

A pilot study of highly accelerated 3D MRI in the head and neck position verification for MR-guided radiotherapy.

Yihang Zhou, Oi Lei Wong, Kin Yin Cheung, Siu Ki Yu, Jing Yuan

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Article in Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Yihang ZhouMedical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Oi Lei WongMedical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Kin Yin CheungMedical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Siu Ki YuMedical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Jing YuanMedical Physics and Research Department, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

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backgroundTo evaluate the performance of a highly accelerated 3D MRI on inter-fractional positional measurement for MR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) in the head and neck (HN).

methodsFourteen healthy volunteers received 159 scans on a 1.5 T MR-sim to simulate MRgRT fractions. MRI acquisition included a high-resolution (HQI-MRI, voxel-size =1.05×1.05×1.05 mm

resultsThe calculated SD of systematic errors (Σ) from HQI-MRI/pseudo-LQI-MRI/true-LQI-MRI images for overall HN were 1.11/1.14/1.08, 0.28/0.26/0.29, 0.43/0.44/0.60, and 0.77/0.79/0.74 mm for translation in LR, AP, SI and 3D, respectively; The corresponding RMS of random errors (σ) were 0.97/0.98/0.96, 0.28/0.27/0.26, 0.77/0.77/0.72, and 0.85/0.87/0.85 mm. For all sub-regions, brain showed the smallest Σ and σ in 3D. Other sub-regions showed direction-dependent error patterns, but the positioning results were consistent, independent of the datasets used for registration.

conclusionsA highly-accelerated 3D-MRI could be used for MR-guided HN radiotherapy without compromising position verification accuracy.

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Image-guided-radiotherapy (IGRT)image registrationMR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT)position verificationrandom errorsystematic error

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PMID31448211
PMCPMC6685804

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