Contemporary IMRT
Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2019
492 pages
978-1-4200-3453-0 (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 an
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Practicing and training medical physicists, especially radiographers/radiologists.
ISBN-13
978-1-4200-3453-0 (9781420034530)
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Person
Steve Webb is Professor of Radiological Physics. Institute of Cancer Research, University of London. UK and Head of Physics. Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Trust. UK.
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.
