ReviewInsights into imaging2024
The role of MRI in radiotherapy planning: a narrative review "from head to toe".
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- Multi-contrast 4DMR via MR multitasking: Early clinical experience and implication for liver stereotactic body radiation therapy.Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Over the last few years, radiation therapy (RT) techniques have evolved very rapidly, with the aim of conforming high-dose volume tightly to a target. Although to date CT is still considered the imaging modality for target delineation, it has some known limited capabilities in properly identifying pathologic processes occurring, for instance, in soft tissues. This limitation, along with other advantages such as dose reduction, can be overcome using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is increasingly being recognized as a useful tool in RT clinical practice. This review has a two-fold aim of providing a basic introduction to the physics of MRI in a narrative way and illustrating the current knowledge on its application "from head to toe" (i.e., different body sites), in order to highlight the numerous advantages in using MRI to ensure the best therapeutic response. We provided a basic introduction for residents and non-radiologist on the physics of MR and reported evidence of the advantages and future improvements of MRI in planning a tailored radiotherapy treatment "from head to toe". CRITICAL RELEVANCE STATEMENT: This review aims to help understand how MRI has become indispensable, not only to better characterize and evaluate lesions, but also to predict the evolution of the disease and, consequently, to ensure the best therapeutic response. KEY POINTS: MRI is increasingly gaining interest and applications in RT planning. MRI provides high soft tissue contrast resolution and accurate delineation of the target volume. MRI will increasingly become indispensable for characterizing and evaluating lesions, and to predict the evolution of disease.
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