Title:

MR Guided Radiotherapy (MRgRT)

Speaker:

Ms. Sara Rahnema Wach

Affiliation:

Lead medical physicist at Northside Hospital

When:

Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

Boggs Building, Room 3-47

Host:

Farzad Rahnema
dbrown360@gatech.edu
4043855502

Abstract

Some of the most recent advances in radiation oncology includes machines dedicated to adaptive radiotherapy (ART) as well as the integration of MR imaging directly onto linear accelerators. The combination of these two has brought us the emergence of MR guided radiotherapy (MRgRT). This talk will give an overview of the advantages of MRgRT as well as explain some of the considerations and challenges of MR Linacs.

Biography

Sara Wach is a lead medical physicist at Northside Hospital with 13 years of experience in Medical Physics in both the community and university setting. She received her undergraduate degree in Nuclear Engineering and graduate degree in Medical Physics at Georgia Tech. Her primary interests are Brachytherapy and Gamma Knife. She is currently working on creating an MRgRT program at Northside hospital and clinically implementing the first MR Linac in Georgia. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children and traveling.

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