Imaging for Physicists

When to do what

Treatment planning

Target definition

Positioning

Lung, Breast, Bone metastasis, Head/Neck?

CT/PET-CT

CT

CBCT/2D x-ray

MR/PET-MR

MR

CBCT/2D x-ray

Pelvis, Brain, Head/Neck?

What we often do today

MR

CT

CBCT/2D x-ray

Adomen, Pelvis

MR/PET-MR

MR

MR

Plan the treatment on the primary information source for the target defintion