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• Radiotherapy asks other questions than standard diagnostics:
– Not if a patient has cancer, but where the tumor starts and ends
• Radiotherapy poses specific demands on imaging
– Patient positioning
Why should medical physicists in RT worry
about imaging technology?
– High resolution imaging
– Geometrical accuracy
• The use of MRI poses specific demands on radiotherapy
– How to deal effectively with all the images during delineation
– How to deal with conflicting information
– How to deal with changes during treatment