Address: Consultant Clinical Scientist, Radiotherapy Physics, Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN/Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Northern Institute for Cancer Research,
Newcastle University
Dr Hazel McCallum is PI for Deep MR-only Radiotherapy project
This project aims to improve outcomes for patients receiving radiotherapy by reducing side effects and increasing the accuracy of their radiotherapy planning through the use of multi-parametric MRI. mpMRI is used to generate an auto-segmented delineation set and an image set for accurate dose calculation.
The project includes PET-MR based radiotherapy planning to further improve tumour delineation and to evaluate tumour response both during and after treatment.
