Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Published on 6. May 2015
454 pages
978-1-040-20569-3 (ISBN)
Description
Clinical conformal radiotherapy is the holy grail of radiation treatment and is now becoming a reality through the combined efforts of physical scientists and engineers, who have improved the physical basis of radiotherapy, and the interest and concern of imaginative radiotherapists and radiographers.
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Reviews / Votes
"It would be a very useful book for graduate students and researchers in many disciplines including medical physics, biomedical engineering, radiology, radiotherapy and clinical research. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy is recommended for all health science libraries as well as science libraries."-E-STREAMS, Vol. 5, No. 12
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
7,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-20569-3 (9781040205693)
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Additional editions
Book
01/2001
1st Edition
Institute of Physics Publishing
€208.60
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
Steve Webb, Professor of Radiological Physics, Head, Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK
Content
PREFACE 1 IMRT: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1.1 Background to the development of IMRT 1.2 How many IMBs are needed and where should they be placed?-the use of compensators 2 ROTATION IMRT: TOMOTHERAPY 2.1 NOMOS MIMiC delivery 2.2 Developments in IMRT using the NOMOS equipment reported 2.3 The tomotherapy machine at the University of Wisconsin 2.4 Verification of IMRT by the NOMOS MIMiC and the Wisconsin machine 3 IMRT USING A MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR 3.1 IMB delivery using a multileaf collimator 3.2 Issues in delivering IMBs via the DMLC technique 3.3 Delivery of IMRT by the multiple-static-field technique 3.4 IMRT by scanned beams 3.5 Combined electron and photon IMRT 3.6 Summary 4 IMRT: CLINICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSOCIATED ISSUES 4.1 Clinical applications of IMRT 4.2 IMRT and movement 4.3 Induced cancers from IMRT? 4.4 Verification of IMRT 4.5 Potential limitations for CFRT with IMRT 4.6 A look to the future-robotic IMRT? 4.7 Summary 5 3D PLANNING FOR CFRT INCLUDING IMRT 5.1 A philosophical note on the optimization (customization?) of treatments 5.2 PTV determination, fuzzy logic and adaptive radiation therapy 5.3 Multimodality imaging and therapy planning 5.4 Plan improvement-'conventional' CFRT, neural nets 5.5 Optimization of IMRT 5.6 Choice of optimization technique 5.7 Beam-orientation optimization 5.8 Organ motion and treatment outcome 5.9 Analysis of treatment plans 5.10 Automatic importance factors 5.11 Summary and a look to the future
