Journal Article

Clinical application of MR-Linac in tumor radiotherapy: a systematic review

Yin, Yong, Li, Zhenjiang, Liu, Xin

2023

Overview

Recent years have seen both a fresh knowledge of cancer and impressive advancements in its treatment. However, the clinical treatment paradigm of cancer is still difficult to implement in the twenty-first century due to the rise in its prevalence. Radiotherapy (RT) is a crucial component of cancer treatment that is helpful for almost all cancer types. The accuracy of RT dosage delivery is increasing as a result of the quick development of computer and imaging technology. The use of image-guided radiation (IGRT) has improved cancer outcomes and decreased toxicity. Online adaptive radiotherapy will be made possible by magnetic resonance imaging-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) using a magnetic resonance linear accelerator (MR-Linac), which will enhance the visibility of malignancies. This review's objectives are to examine the benefits of MR-Linac as a treatment approach from the perspective of various cancer patients' prognoses and to suggest prospective development areas for additional study.

• Publisher: BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
• Subject: Abdomen / Accuracy / Biomedical and Life Sciences / Biomedicine / Breast cancer / Cancer / Cancer Research / Cancer therapies / Care and treatment / Diagnosis / Health aspects / Humans / Imaging / Linear accelerators / Lung cancer / Magnetic resonance imaging / Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods / Malignancy / Medical imaging / Medical prognosis / Metastasis / Methods / MR-Linac / MRgRT / Neoplasms - radiotherapy / Oncology / Pancreatic cancer / Particle Accelerators / Patient outcomes / Patients / Prospective Studies / Radiation / Radiation therapy / Radiology / Radiotherapy / Radiotherapy Dosage / Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - methods / Radiotherapy, Image-Guided - methods / Review / Tomography / Toxicity / Tumor / Tumors