Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology -

Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology

Faiz M. Khan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
527 Seiten
2006 | 2nd Revised edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-0-7817-8541-9 (ISBN)
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A guide to various treatment planning techniques in radiation oncology. It provides the treatment planning team - radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and medical dosimetrists - with detailed information on both the physics of radiation treatment planning and the clinical aspects of radiotherapy for specific cancers.
Completely updated for its Second Edition, this text is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art treatment planning techniques in radiation oncology. The book provides the treatment planning team--radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and medical dosimetrists--with detailed information on both the physics of radiation treatment planning and the clinical aspects of radiotherapy for specific cancers. More than 600 illustrations provide practical examples of the methodologies. Brand-new chapters in this edition cover image-guided radiation therapy, high dose rate brachytherapy, and brachytherapy treatment planning algorithms. The chapters have been completely updated, particularly in areas including intensity-modulated radiation therapy and brachytherapy.

Introduction: Process, Equipment, and Personnel Imaging in Radiotherapy Patient Data Acquisition Patient and Organ Movement Patient Positioning and Immobilization Treatment Planning Algorithms: Model-based Photon Dose Calculations Treatment Planning Algorithms: Electron Beams Treatment Planning Algorithms: Brachytherapy Quality Assurance Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy (3DCRT) Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Image-Guided Radiation Therapy Linac Radiosurgery: System Requirements, Procedures, and Testing Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Treatment Plan Evaluation Fractionation: Radiobiological Principles and Clinical Practice Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract The Gynecological Malignancies Cancers of the Genitourinary Tract: Prostate Cancers of the Genitourinary Tract: Bladder Cancers of the Genitourinary Tract: Testis The Lymphomas Cancers of the Head and Neck Skin Cancer Breast Cancer Cancers of the Central Nervous System Pediatric Malignancies Cancers of the Lung and Mediastinum Extremity Soft-tissue Sarcomas

Zusatzinfo 669
Verlagsort Philadelphia
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 280 mm
Gewicht 1725 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Onkologie
ISBN-10 0-7817-8541-3 / 0781785413
ISBN-13 978-0-7817-8541-9 / 9780781785419
Zustand Neuware
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