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Treatment planning in radiation oncology /
"With the advent of computer technology and medical imaging, treatment planning in radiation oncology has evolved from a way of devising beam arrangements to a sophisticated process whereby imaging scanners are used to define target volume, simulators are used to outline treatment volume, and c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health,
[2012]
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| Edición: | Third edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Physics and biology of treatment planning
- Introduction: process, equipment, and personnel
- Imaging in radiotherapy
- Patient data acquisition
- Patient and organ movement
- Patient positioning and immobilization
- Treatment simulation
- Treatment planning algorithms: model-based photon dose calculations
- Treatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy
- Treatment planning algorithms: electron beams
- Treatment planning algorithms: proton therapy
- Commissioning and quality assurance
- Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy
- Image-guided radiation therapy
- Cranial radiosurgery
- Stereotactic body radiation therapy
- Low dose-rate brachytherapy
- High-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning
- Radiation therapy using high-energy electron beams
- Proton beam therapy
- Fractionation: radiobiological principles and clinical practice
- Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic radiation
- Treatment plan evaluation
- Treatment planning for specific cancers
- Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract
- Gynecologic malignancies
- Cancer of the genitourinary tract
- Lymphomas
- Cancers of the head and neck
- Cancers of the skin, including mycosis fungoides
- Breast cancer
- Cancers of the central nervous system
- Pediatric malignancies
- Cancers of the thorax
- Extremity soft-tissue sarcomas.