S. Webb

Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy describes in detail the physics germane to the development of a particular form of clinical conformal radiotherapy called intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). IMRT has become a topic of tremendous importance in recent years and is now being seriously investigated for its potential to improve the outcome of radiation therapy. The book collates the state-of-the-art literature together with the author's personal research experience and that of colleagues in the field to produce a text suitable for new research workers, Ph.D. students, and practicing radiation physicists that require a thorough introduction to IMRT. Fully illustrated, indexed, and referenced, the book has been prepared in a form suitable for supporting a teaching course.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780750306997
• ISBN-10: 0750306998
• Artikelnr.: 22234226

Autorenporträt

Steve Webb, Professor of Radiological Physics, Head, Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK

Inhaltsangabe

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