Design and shielding of radiotherapy treatment facilities /

Design and Shielding of Radiotherapy Treatment Facilities provides readers with a single point of reference for protection advice to the construction and modification of radiotherapy facilities. The book assembles a faculty of national and international experts on all modalities including megavoltag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Horton, Patrick (Physicist) (Autor), Eaton, David (Physicist) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2017]
Edición:2nd edition.
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP expanding physics.
Series in physics and engineering in medicine and biology.
IPEM report ; no. 75.
Temas:
Hospitals > Radiological services > Design and construction.
Radiation > Safety measures.
Shielding (Radiation)
Radiotherapy.
Radiology Department, Hospital > standards.
Hospital Design and Construction > standards.
Radiation Protection > standards.
Medical physics.
MEDICAL / Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. The design and procurement process
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Strategic proposal and business case for a new development
  • 1.3. Design team
  • 1.4. Process, tenders and contracts
  • 1.5. Construction
  • 1.6. Acceptance and handover
  • 1.7. Commissioning
  • 1.8. Project evaluation
  • 2. The design of radiotherapy facilities
  • 2.1. General
  • 2.2. Linear accelerators
  • 2.3. Cobalt-60 units
  • 2.4. Kilovoltage units
  • 2.5. Brachytherapy
  • 2.6. Particle therapy
  • 3. Radiation protection requirements
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Quantities and units
  • 3.3. System of radiation protection
  • 3.4. Regulatory framework in the UK
  • 3.5. Basic radiation protection principles in radiotherapy
  • 3.6. Controlled areas
  • 3.7. Optimisation in the design process
  • 3.8. Engineering controls
  • 3.9. Prior risk assessment
  • 3.10. Additional regulatory requirements
  • 4. Clinical practice, treatment room and control room design
  • 4.1. Clinical practice
  • 4.2. Treatment room design
  • 4.3. Control room design
  • 5. Empirical shielding calculations for treatment rooms with linear accelerators
  • 5.1. General principles
  • 5.2. Primary barriers
  • 5.3. Secondary barriers
  • 5.4. Roofs and skyshine
  • 5.5. Groundshine
  • 5.6. Obliquity factor
  • 5.7. X-ray scatter down the maze
  • 5.8. Neutron scatter down the maze
  • 5.9. Maze doors and lining
  • 5.10. Direct doors
  • 5.11. Laminated walls and roofs
  • 5.12. Spreadsheet approach for primary and secondary shielding
  • 6. Monte Carlo methods
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Available Monte Carlo codes and deciding which one to use
  • 6.3. Using the MCNP code
  • 6.4. Using the FLUKA code
  • 6.5. MCNP, induced neutrons and particle therapy
  • 6.6. Calculation of whole-body doses
  • 6.7. Summary
  • 7. Shielding materials and construction details
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Materials with unspecified TVLs
  • 7.3. Construction details
  • 8. Specialist applications : Gamma Knife®, TomoTherapy® and CyberKnife®
  • 8.1. The Gamma Knife®
  • 8.2. TomoTherapy®
  • 8.3. CyberKnife®
  • 9. Kilovoltage therapy and electronic brachytherapy
  • 9.1. Superficial and orthovoltage therapy
  • 9.2. Electronic brachytherapy and intra operative radiotherapy
  • 10. Brachytherapy
  • 10.1. Treatment modes
  • 10.2. Regulatory considerations
  • 10.3. Room design
  • 10.4. High dose-rate afterloading
  • 10.5. Pulsed dose-rate afterloading
  • 10.6. Permanent implants : iodine-125 seeds
  • 10.7. Eye plaques
  • 11. Radiation shielding and safety for particle therapy facilities
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Sources of extraneous radiation
  • 11.3. Design and build process considerations
  • 11.4. Regulatory requirements and design criteria
  • 11.5. Workload, use and occupancy factors
  • 11.6. Construction materials
  • 11.7. Theory of radiation transport : solving the Boltzmann equation
  • 11.8. Practical shielding calculations
  • 11.9. Monte Carlo calculation methods
  • 11.10. Mazes and ducts
  • 11.11. Room interlocks and monitoring
  • 11.12. Radiation hazards resulting from activation
  • 11.13. Measuring and monitoring techniques and instrumentation
  • 11.14. Summary
  • 12. Shielding verification and radiation surveys
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. During construction
  • 12.3. Post construction radiation survey--detailed shielding integrity testing
  • 12.4. Preliminary safety assessment
  • 12.5. Critical examination
  • 12.6. Radiation surveys
  • 12.7. Surveys of kilovoltage equipment
  • 12.8. Surveys of brachytherapy facilities
  • 12.9. Surveys of CT scanners
  • 12.10. Validation of results.

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