Second edition
by Faiz M. Khan
Completely updated for its Second Edition, Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art treatment planning techniques in radiation oncology.
The book provides the treatment planning team 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
- brachytherapy treatment planning algorithms
Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology Second edition has been completely updated, particularly in areas including intensity-modulated radiation therapy and brachytherapy.
Contents
- Introduction: process, equipment, and personnel
- Imaging 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
- Treaatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy
- Quality assurance
- Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy
- 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: radiobiologic principles and clinical practice
- Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract
- The gynecologic malignancies
- Cancers of the genioturinary tract
- The lymphomas
- Cancers of the head and neck
- Cancers of the skin, including mycosis fungoides
- Breast cancer
- Central nervous system
- Pediatric malignancies
- Cancers of the thorax
- Extremity soft-tissue sarcomas
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