Advanced course on physics in MRI for radiotherapy

For medical physicists

MRI in radiotherapy is a growing field and many departments of radiotherapy are currently introducing or extending the use of MRI for delineation of target volumes and organs at risk. Additionally, treatment monitoring during or after radiotherapy is emerging. For the implementation process, understanding of MR physics is useful and practical.

Therefore, we announce an advanced course on physics in MRI for radiotherapy scheduled October 11-13. This course aims at physicists who have attended the basic course or have some understanding of MRI and require more practical knowledge to implement or conduct the introduction of MRI for radiotherapy. The program includes a more theoretical and a more practical part. We will go in detail into advanced acquisition methods such as TSE, SSFP, EPI and SPGR and contrast mechanism such as T1, T2 and diffusion. Sequence optimization for contrast, resolution, geometric accuracy, SNR will be touched on theoretically and in practice. Also QA for image quality, geometric fidelity of the scanner, patient specific QA, and phantoms will be discussed and demonstrated. The practical part of the course on the scanner will be conducted on a Philips scanner. We have access to a 3T and two 1.5T Philips Ingenia scanners.

The course will be given on 3 consecutive days from 9:30 till the end of the afternoon 17:30. The course language is English. Lunch will be served near the auditorium. For trainees, PhD students and master students the course is free of costs. For staff members, the fee is € 400,-. After application you will receive information about payment.

CME points are requested at the NVKF.
Please apply before Octobre 3rd.

You can register http://mri-in-radiotherapy.nl/sign-up_/

Nico van den Berg, MR physicist
Marielle Philippens, Medical physicist radiotherapy
Research program of MR-Radiotherapy in the UMC Utrecht Center for Image Sciences