AROI-ESTRO GYN Teaching Course

Step 2: „providing (some) infrastructure“

• Decision in Vienna in favour of an open MRI system for radiotherapy planning, within brachytherapy (1995) [instead of a digital fluoroscopy based planning system (500.000€)]

• Installation, testing, tuning MRI for radiotherapy (97-9) (Fransson et al. Strahlentherapie 2001) • Developing specific sequences (prostate, gynae) (1998) (research grant MRI medical physics: A. Fransson, Karolinska, Stockholm) • Systematic Comparison MRI vs. CT based treatment planning: EBRT for brain and prostate tumours

(Fransson et al. Radioth&Oncol 2000, Petersch et al. Radioth&Oncol 2003)