MRI guidance is feasible for proton therapy

MR guidance is emerging as a powerful tool for real-time monitoring of radiation treatments, offering excellent soft-tissue contrast and the ability to track intra-fractional tumour motion. Hybrid devices for MR-guided photon-based radiotherapy are now in clinical use. But to date, no such combined system exists for proton therapy.

Now, a team from OncoRay at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has integrated a low-field open MR scanner with a static proton research beam line and shown that, in principle, simultaneous proton irradiation and in-beam MRI is technically feasible (Phys. Med. Biol. 10.1088/1361-6560/aaece8).

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Source: Physics World