A large percentage of patients receiving MRI simulations for radiotherapy treatment planning have metal in their bodies. Often the metal is in or near the target or organs at risk. Metal creates susceptibility artifacts that can saturate the tissue signal and distort the tissue geometry. In this case report, examples of the benefits of metal artifact reduction using slice encoding for metal artifact correction (SEMAC) are presented for patients scanned at 1.5 T. Critical regions that were obscured by artifact were restored using SEMAC, thus allowing MRI-based treatment planning.
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