Description
Contemporary IMRT
Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation
Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Series
Author: Webb S.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Contemporary IMRT:
Keywords
IMRT Treatment Plan; Polymer Gel Dosimetry; contemporary intensity modulated radiation therapy; Spinal Cord; medical physics research; Dose Distribution; clinical arena; IMRT Plan; IMRT Treatment; Treatment Planning System; Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; Inverse Planning; Dose Volume Histogram; IMRT Technique; Normal Tissue Complication Probabilities; MVCT Image; Monte Carlo Dose Calculation; Helical Tomotherapy; Beam’s Eye View; Inverse Planning System; Inverse Planning Technique; Dose Volume Constraints; MLC Leaf; IMRT Delivery; Inverse Planning Algorithm; Pencil Beam Algorithm; MLC Leave; UK Reader
Publication date: 06-2020
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2004
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Description
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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.