Buch, Englisch, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g
Buch, Englisch, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g
Reihe: Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
ISBN: 978-0-7503-1004-8
Verlag: CRC Press
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 and engineers. Focusing on new developments and the preliminary clinical implementation, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation discusses the relationship between these advances and applications.
Capturing contemporary technological advances, the book reviews modern applications of IMRT and shows how IMRT is used now and how it will be used in the future. The book begins with a historical background of IMRT as well as a discussion of the current state of IMRT. It also covers technical solutions that have been commercialized, such as the sliding window technique, step-and-shoot, tomotherapy, and the Cyberknife. The final chapter explores imaging developments and new planning methods, including gradient-descent and split modulation.
Covering recent advancements in IMRT and showing how these techniques and devices have been implemented, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation provides state-of-the-art findings for oncologists, radiotherapists, radiographers, physicists, and engineers.
Zielgruppe
Practicing and training medical physicists, especially radiographers/radiologists.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Nuklearmedizin, PET, Radiotherapie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Medizinische Physik
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
- Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
Weitere Infos & Material
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.
