Head-and-Neck MRI-only radiotherapy treatment planning: From acquisition in treatment position to pseudo-CT generation.

Purpose: In context of head-and-neck radiotherapy, this study aims to compare MR image quality according to diagnostic (DIAG) and radiotherapy (RT) setups; and to optimise an MRI-protocol (including 3D T and T-weighted sequences) for dose-planning (based on pseudo-CT generation).

Materials And Methods: To compare DIAG and RT setups, signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and percentage-image-uniformity (PIU) were computed on T images of phantoms and volunteers. Influence of the sample conductivity on SNR was quantified using homemade phantoms.