Strategies for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
Ping Xia (Redaktør) Andrew Godley (Redaktør) Chirag Shah (Redaktør) Gregory M. M. Videtic (Redaktør) John Suh (Redaktør)
Strategies for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning provides radiation oncologists, physicists, and dosimetrists with a step-by-step guide to implementing external beam treatment plans that meet clinical requirements for each major disease site. Les mer
The book begins with an overview of external beam treatment planning principles, inverse planning and advanced planning tools, and a chapter describing all components in simulation and verification. Following these introductory chapters, chapters comprise disease-site examples including central nervous system, head and neck, breast, thoracic, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic, lymphoma, and soft tissue sarcoma. The book concludes with expert guidance on planning for pediatric cancers and how to tailor palliative plans. Essential for all radiation therapy team members, including trainees, this book is for those who wish to learn or improve their treatment planning skills and understand the different treatment planning processes, plan evaluation, and patient setup.
Key Features:
Provides basic principles of treatment planning
Contains step-by-step, illustrated descriptions of the treatment planning process
Discusses the pros and cons of advanced treatment planning tools such as auto-planning, knowledge based planning, and multi-criteria based planning
Describes each primary treatment site from simulation, patient immobilization, creation of various treatment plans, to plan evaluations
Includes instructive sample plans to highlight best practices
Comes with access to the fully downloadable eBook
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Springer Publishing Co Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 275
- ISBN
- 9780826122445
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm