Various issues affect the effectiveness of open medical physics, which has a devastating impact on the provision of quality and affordable healthcare to the people. Treatment verification and monitoring through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a significant process since it helps ensure that the patient is subjected to the right prescriptions (Kurz et al.). One of the major challenges facing magnetic resonance imaging is that the images suffer from spatial distortion. Treatment verification through various forms of radiography greatly relies on high spatial accuracy.
Spatial distortions in magnetic resonance imaging lead to inaccurate MRI quantitative results, which contributes to poor medical prescriptions for effective treatment. One of the most significant approaches to eliminating spatial distortions is by ensuring that the scanners used in MRI machines provide ultra-uniform magnetic fields (Kalender and Quick). Intensity remapping of ultra-uniform magnetic fields significantly helps in ensuring geometric distortion correction of the results acquired from the magnetic resonance imaging machines.
Another major issue that arises in the use of magnetic resonance imaging is the technical issues. The hardware components of the machines are important equipment in the radiology process and hence should be subjected to an appropriate technical validation process to enhance their effectiveness (Kurz et al.). Inappropriate technical validation of the machines may lead to the acquisition of inaccurate and repeated results, which contributes to poor treatment processes using magnetic resonance imaging (Kalender and Quick).
Using quality machines in the radiology department will also be effective in reducing time consumption in radiography (Kurz et al.). Subjecting the medical practitioner in the radiology department to quality training will help in reducing the challenges related to the professionals and enhance effectiveness.
Works Cited
Kalender, Willi A., and Harald H. Quick. “Recent Advances in Medical Physics.” European Radiology, vol. 21, no. 3, 2010, pp. 501–504, 10.1007/s00330-010-2027-9.
Kurz, Christopher, et al. “Medical Physics Challenges in Clinical MR-Guided Radiotherapy.” Radiation Oncology, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, 10.1186/s13014-020-01524-4.