Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy

Clinical Evidence and Techniques

Yasumasa Nishimura, Ritsuko Komaki (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

473 Seiten

2015 | 2015 ed.
Springer Verlag, Japan
978-4-431-55485-1 (ISBN)

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Successful clinical use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) represents a significant advance in radiation oncology. Because IMRT can deliver high-dose radiation to a target with a reduced dose to the surrounding organs, it can improve the local control rate and reduce toxicities associated with radiation therapy. Since IMRT began being used in the mid-1990s, a large volume of clinical evidence of the advantages of IMRT has been collected. However, treatment planning and quality assurance (QA) of IMRT are complicated and difficult for the clinician and the medical physicist. This book, by authors renowned for their expertise in their fields, provides cumulative clinical evidence and appropriate techniques for IMRT for the clinician and the physicist. Part I deals with the foundations and techniques, history, principles, QA, treatment planning, radiobiology and related aspects of IMRT. Part II covers clinical applications with several case studies, describing contouring and dose distribution with clinical results along with descriptions of indications and a review of clinical evidence for each tumor site. The information presented in this book serves as a valuable resource for the practicing clinician and physicist.

Yasumasa Nishimura Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Kinki University School of Medicine Ritsuko Komaki Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

Part 1. Foundations and Techniques.-

1. History of IMRT.- 2. PRINCIPLES OF IMRT.- 3. Radiobiology for IMRT.- 4. Treatment Planning of IMRT for Head and Neck Malignancies.- 5. IGRT for IMRT.- 6. Adaptive Radiation Therapy in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer.

Part 2. Clinical application.-

7. Brain Tumor: Glioblastoma ~How should we manage GBM in the era of IMRT?~.- 8. NASOPHARYNGEAL CANCER.- 9. Oropharyngeal cancer.- 10. Postoperative intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancers: A case-based review.- 11. Sequellae of therapy of HN cancer: their prevention and therapy.- 12. NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER.- 13. MESOTHELIOMA.- 14. BREAST CANCER.- 15. Clinical application of IMRT for cervical esophageal cancer.- 16. THORACIC ESOPHAGEAL CANCER.- 17. PANCREATIC CANCER.- 18. Anal canal cancer.- 19. Early prostate cancer (T1-2N0M0).- 20. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for locally advanced prostate cancer.- 21. Gynecologic Malignancies.- 22. Pediatric Cancers.

Zusatzinfo	99 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 473 p. 121 illus., 99 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Tokyo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Radiologie / Bildgebende Verfahren ► Radiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Schlagworte	high-dose radiation • radiation oncology • Radiobiology • Treatment Planning
ISBN-10	4-431-55485-8 / 4431554858
ISBN-13	978-4-431-55485-1 / 9784431554851
Zustand	Neuware