Beam's Eye View Imaging in Radiation Oncology

Ross I. Berbeco, PhD, is a board-certified medical physicist and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He earned his PhD in High Energy Experimental Physics at the University of Michigan before transitioning to medical physics. Dr. Berbeco began a beam’s eye view imaging workshop during his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has since continued to research BEV imaging for tumor localization to facilitate applications like delivered dose reconstruction, adaptive radiation therapy and tumor tracking.

Series Preface



Preface



Editor



Contributors



Part 1 FUNDAMENTALS



1 History of MV imaging

Marcel van Herk



2 Detector construction

Daniel Morf



3 Monte Carlo simulation of EPIDs

Jeffrey V. Siebers and I. Antoniu Popescu



Part 2 CLINICAL APPLICATIONS



4 Radiographic imaging

Philip Vial



5 Megavoltage cone-beam computed tomography

Olivier Gayou



6 Pretreatment EPID-based patient-specific QA

Peter Greer



7 Beam’s eye view imaging for patient safety

Eric Ford



Part 3 INNOVATIONS



8 Beam’s eye view imaging with low atomic number linear accelerator targets

James L. Robar



9 Real-time tumor tracking

Joerg Rottmann



10 Beam’s eye view imaging for in-treatment delivered dose estimation in photon radiotherapy

John H. Lewis



11 EPID-based in vivo transit dosimetry

Ben Mijnheer



12 Advanced technologies for beam’s eye view imaging

Josh Star-Lack



Index