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The rationale for MR-only treatment planning for external radiotherapy

• MR-only treatment planning could improve the spatial accuracy of radiotherapy. • The benefit compared to a mixed MR-CT workflow will vary between patient groups. • Further development of QA tools is needed before the procedure will save resources.

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Autores principales: Jonsson, Joakim, Nyholm, Tufve, Söderkvist, Karin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6630106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31341977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctro.2019.03.005
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spelling pubmed-66301062019-07-24 The rationale for MR-only treatment planning for external radiotherapy Jonsson, Joakim Nyholm, Tufve Söderkvist, Karin Clin Transl Radiat Oncol Article • MR-only treatment planning could improve the spatial accuracy of radiotherapy. • The benefit compared to a mixed MR-CT workflow will vary between patient groups. • Further development of QA tools is needed before the procedure will save resources. Elsevier 2019-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6630106/ /pubmed/31341977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ctro.2019.03.005 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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