
Contemporary IMRT
Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation
S. Webb(Author)
Institute of Physics Publishing
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2004
Book
Hardback
492 pages
978-0-7503-1004-8 (ISBN)
Description
The most important radiotherapy modality used today, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), is the most technologically advanced radiotherapy cancer treatment available, rapidly replacing conformal and three-dimensional techniques. Because of these changes, oncologists and radiotherapists need up-to-date information gathered by physicists and engineers. Focusing on new developments and the preliminary clinical implementation, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation discusses the relationship between these advances and applications.
Capturing contemporary technological advances, the book reviews modern applications of IMRT and shows how IMRT is used now and how it will be used in the future. The book begins with a historical background of IMRT as well as a discussion of the current state of IMRT. It also covers technical solutions that have been commercialized, such as the sliding window technique, step-and-shoot, tomotherapy, and the Cyberknife. The final chapter explores imaging developments and new planning methods, including gradient-descent and split modulation.
Covering recent advancements in IMRT and showing how these techniques and devices have been implemented, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation provides state-of-the-art findings for oncologists, radiotherapists, radiographers, physicists, and engineers.
Capturing contemporary technological advances, the book reviews modern applications of IMRT and shows how IMRT is used now and how it will be used in the future. The book begins with a historical background of IMRT as well as a discussion of the current state of IMRT. It also covers technical solutions that have been commercialized, such as the sliding window technique, step-and-shoot, tomotherapy, and the Cyberknife. The final chapter explores imaging developments and new planning methods, including gradient-descent and split modulation.
Covering recent advancements in IMRT and showing how these techniques and devices have been implemented, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation provides state-of-the-art findings for oncologists, radiotherapists, radiographers, physicists, and engineers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Practicing and training medical physicists, especially radiographers/radiologists.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7503-1004-8 (9780750310048)
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Person
Webb, S.
Content
Preface and acknowledgments. IMRT: General statements and points of debate. Developments in rotation IMRT and tomotherapy. Developments in IMRT using a multileaf collimator (MLC). Developments in IMRT not using an MLC. Clinical IMRT- evidence-based medicine? 3D planning for CFRT and IMRT: Developments in imaging for planning and for assisting therapy. Epilogue. References. Index.