Nearly 200 Oncology Experts Gather to Discuss Advanced Applications of MR Image-Guided Radiotherapy

CLEVELAND, March 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Experts in MR image-guided radiation therapy convened today to discuss MR image-guided radiation therapy experience and current and future applications during a global symposium in Amsterdam.

The symposium, titled "Advanced Applications of MR-Guided Radiotherapy Symposium," brought together nearly 200 members of the global oncology community, including radiation oncologists and medical physicists, for talks on various aspects of MR image-guided radiation therapy presented by five experts in the field. Key topics and speakers included:

• Considerations and Challenges of MR Guided Radiation Therapy presented by John Bayouth, Ph.D., Professor and Chief of Physics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in Madison, WI
• Installation and Commissioning of a Linac-based MR Guided RT System presented by Sebastian Klüter, Ph.D., Medical Physicist at University Hospital Heidelberg in Heidelberg, Germany
• On-Table Adaptive MR-Guided SBRT: Clinical Experience at VUmc presented by Ben Slotman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology at VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam
• MR-Guided Breast Radiotherapy presented by Maria Thomas, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO
• Clinical Applications & Experiences with MR Guided Radiation Therapy presented by Salim Siddiqui, M.D., Director of Stereotactic Radiation at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI

The day-long event aimed to educate clinicians interested in bringing MR image-guided radiation therapy to their institution. The event concluded with a tour of VU University Medical Center (VUmc)'s MRIdian System, which is currently being used to treat patients, and the hospital's second system, the next-generation MRIdian Linac, which is currently under installation.

The symposium was sponsored by ViewRay, makers of MRIdian, the world's first and only commercially available MR image-guided radiation therapy system. Presentations from the symposium will be available on the Events page of ViewRay's website after April 16, 2018.

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ViewRay®, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRAY), designs, manufactures and markets the MRIdian® radiation therapy system. MRIdian is built upon a proprietary high-definition MR imaging system designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges and clinical workflow for advanced radiation oncology. Unlike MR systems used in diagnostic radiology, MRIdian's high-definition MR was purpose-built to address specific challenges including beam distortion, skin toxicity, and other safety concerns, which may potentially occur when high magnetic fields interact with radiation beams. ViewRay and MRIdian are registered trademarks of ViewRay, Inc. 

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