MRI for Radiotherapy

Professor Gary Liney is the senior medical physicist at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research and Liverpool Cancer Therapy Centre, Sydney, Australia. He is providing the scientific lead into the MRI-simulator and MRI-Linac programs at Liverpool. Gary is a recognised expert in the use and integration of MRI techniques into radiotherapy planning, and published over 70 scientific papers and three textbooks. He has taught on the ESTRO imaging for physicists' course since its inception in 2010. He is currently leading the investigations on the Australian phase 2 MRI-Linac system using a dedicated split bore open magnet to provide real-time MRI guided therapy. Professor Uulke van der Heide works as a medical physicist and group leader at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He holds a chair as professor of imaging technology in radiotherapy at the Leiden University. He was the course director on the ESTRO imaging for physicists' course until 2017. His research group works on the improvement of target definition in radiotherapy by application of MRI and the development and validation of quantitative imaging methods for tumour characterization for radiotherapy dose painting. He further leads the MR-guided radiotherapy program at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Part I MRI for Planning: Basics of MRI and Radiotherapy.- Patient set-up & positioning.- Guidelines for MRI acquisition.- Quality Assurance.- Clinical Sites.- Part II MRI during treatment: Functional imaging& response assessment.- Adaptive radiotherapy.- Part III MR-only Radiotherapy: Challenges & requirements.- Atlas based methods.- Direct conversion.- Part IV Real-time guidance: First clinical results.- MRI-Linac systems.- Proton therapy.- Part V MR in RT 2017: Selection of papers from 5^th International MR in RT Symposium.

"This book widely deserves a prominent position in libraries and on work desks in radiotherapy departments, as we are sure that this approach will be broadly applied in the next future." (Cesare Guida and Valerio Nardone, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Vol. 48, 2021)