An efficient and robust MRI-guided radiotherapy planning approach for targeting abdominal organs and tumours in the mouse.
Veerle KersemansJohn S BeechStuart GilchristPaul KincheshPhilip D AllenJames ThompsonAna L GomesZenobia D'CostaLuke BirdIain D C TullisRobert G NewmanAurelien Corroyer-DulmontNadia FalzoneAbul AzadKatherine A VallisOwen J SansomRuth J MuschelBorivoj VojnovicMark A HillEmmanouil FokasSean C SmartPublished in: PloS one (2017)
This is, to our knowledge, the first study to demonstrate preclinical MR-IGRT in intra-abdominal organs. The proposed MR-IGRT method presents a state-of-the-art solution to enabling robust, accurate and efficient targeting of extracranial organs in the mouse and can operate with a sufficiently high throughput to allow fractionated treatments to be given.