Clinical 3D Dosimetry in Modern Radiation Therapy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mijnheer, Ben

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a first comprehensive summary of the basic principles, instrumentation, methods, and clinical applications of three-dimensional dosimetry in modern radiation therapy treatment. The presentation reflects the major growth in the field as a result of the widespread use of more sophisticated radiotherapy approaches such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy and proton therapy, which require new 3D dosimetric techniques to determine very accurately the dose distribution. It is intended as an essential guide for those involved in the design and implementation of new treatment technology and its application in advanced radiation therapy, and will enable these readers to select the most suitable equipment and methods for their application. Chapters include numerical data, examples, and case studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351645119
• Artikelnr.: 50146301

Autorenporträt

Ben Mijnheer got his PhD at the University of Amsterdam on a study concerning standardization of neutron dosimetry. After working on a neutron therapy project in the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam, he joined this institution as a clinical physicist. Later he became Head of the Physics Department, Professor at Inholland University, and is until now involved in research projects and teaching activities at the NKI. He served for many years on the editorial board of Radiotherapy and Oncology and Medical Physics Journal, is (co-)-author of about 250 articles and chapters in books, and was supervisor of about 25 PhD theses. He was involved in the organisation of the physics programme of many international scientific meetings, and faculty member of numerous courses dealing with various aspects of radiotherapy for medical physicists, radiation oncologists and radiation therapists, both at the national and international level. He received the ESTRO Breur Gold Medal and Emmanuel van der Schueren Award.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION. Introduction and overview. Accuracy requirements for 3D
dosimetry in contemporary radiation therapy. INSTRUMENTATION. Detectors for
reference dosimetry. Point detectors for determining and verifying 3D dose
distributions. Polymer gel dosimetry. Radiochromic 3D detectors. Electronic
Portal Imaging Device (EPID) dosimetry. 2D and semi-3D dosimetry systems.
MEASUREMENT AND COMPUTATION. Small field dosimetry in photon beams. Special
delivery techniques. 4D dosimetry. Light-ion beam dosimetry. Monte Carlo
applications in clinical 3D dosimetry. Quantifying differences in dose
distributions. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. Acceptance testing, commissioning,
and QA of linear accelerators. Commissioning and QA of treatment planning
systems. Patient specific QA: pre-treatment 3D dose verification. Patient
specific QA: in vivo 3D dose verification. Audits using end-to-end tests.
Brachytherapy dosimetry in three dimensions. Dose outside the treatment
volume in external beam therapy. Imaging dose in radiation therapy. Dose
verification of proton and carbon ion beam treatments. EMERGING
TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS. Dosimetry of small animal precision
irradiators. 3D dosimetry in synchrotron radiation therapy techniques. 3D
dosimetry in magnetic fields