TitleTreatment planning in radiation oncology / editors, Faiz M. Khan, Bruce J. Gerbi
ImprintPhiladelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012
Edition 3rd ed
Descript xiii, 773 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm

CONTENT

I: Physics and biology of treatment planning -- Introduction: process,equipment, and personnel / Faiz M. Khan -- Imaging in Radiotherapy / John A. Wolfgang -- Patient data acquisition / Bahman Emami -- Patient and organ movement / James M. Balter -- Patient positioning and immobilization / Matthew B. Podgorsak -- Treatment simulation / Niko Papanikolaou -- Treatment planning algorithms: model-based photon dose calculations / Edwin C. McCullough -- Treatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy / Kenneth J. Weeks -- Treatment planning algorithms: electron beams / Faiz M. Khan -- Treatment planning algorithms: proton therapy / Benjamin M. Clasie -- Commissioning and quality assurance / Jacob Van Dyk -- Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy / Radhe Mohan -- Image-guided radiation therapy / Radhe Mohan -- Image-guided radiation therapy / Radhe Mohan -- Cranial radiosurgery / Frank J. Bova -- Stereotactic body radiation therapy / Thomas P. Boike -- Low dose-rate brachytherapy / Glenn P. Glasgow -- High-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning / Bruce R. Thomadsen -- Radiation therapy using high-energy electron beams / Bruce J. Gerbi -- Proton beam therapy / Judy A. Adams -- Fractionation: radiobiological principles and clinical practice / Colin G. Orton -- Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic radiation / Eric Kielhorn -- Treatment plan evaluation / Gerald J. Kutcher. -- II: Treatment planning for specific cancers -- Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract / Jonathan B. Ashman -- Gynecologic malignancies / Catheryn Yashar -- Cancers of the genitourinary tract -- A. Prostate / Michael E. Ray -- B. Bladder / Michael E. Ray -- C. Testis / Michael E. Ray -- The lymphomas / Joachim Yahalom -- Cancers of the head and neck / William M. Mendenhall -- Cancers of the skin, including mycosis fungoides / Kenneth R. Stevens, Jr -- Breast cancer / Adam Dickler -- Cancers of the central nervous system / Ezequiel Ramirez -- Pediatric malignancies / Lee T. Myers -- Cancers of the thorax / Mary K. Martel -- Extremity soft-tissue sarcomas / Michael T. Selch


SUBJECT

  1. Neoplasms -- radiotherapy
  2. Radiotherapy planning
  3. Computer -- assisted
  4. Radiation Oncology -- methods

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