The Modern Technology of Radiation Oncology

A Compendium for Medical Physicists and Radiation Oncologists

Jacob Van Dyk

• Publisher: Medical Physics Publishing
• Year: 1999
• eBook ISBN:
  9781930524897
• Print ISBN:
  9780944838389

The purpose of this book is to describe the technological details associated with radiation oncology. Unlike standard medical physics textbooks which generally do not address design details or the details of acceptance, commissioning, and quality assurance, this book emphasizes the design of all the equipment or tools that are associated with radiation treatment. In addition, it describes the procedures that are required to implement this equipment into clinical service (needs assessment, purchase, acceptance and commissioning) and--once it is in service--the quality assurance that is required to keep the equipment operational at acceptable levels. In addition to describing all the tools that are used in "standard" radiation treatment centers, Modern Technology of Radiation Oncology addresses less common or evolving technologies and, thus, provides a comprehensive overview. Anyone embarking on any of these new procedures will be able to gain some basic insight as to what is required to make the procedure clinically viable. The book is intended to be both a reference text for those who have been working in the field for some years as well as a learning tool for those who are entering the field. While the body of each chapter is written at a level understandable by both medical physicists and radiation oncologists, additional detailed information for medical physicists is provided in the appendices at the end of some of the chapters.

Table of contents

• CHAPTER 1--RADIATION ONCOLOGY OVERVIEW
• CHAPTER 2--CLINICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS
• CHAPTER 3--PATIENT IMMOBILIZATION
• CHAPTER 4--SIMULATORS
• CHAPTER 5--CT SIMULATORS
• CHAPTER 6--SIMULATOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
• CHAPTER 7--IMAGING FOR RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING (MRI, NUCLEAR MEDICINE, ULTRASOUND)
• CHAPTER 8--COMPUTERIZED RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS
• CHAPTER 9--KILOVOLTAGE X-RAYS
• CHAPTER 10--COBALT-60 TELETHERAPY
• CHAPTER 11--MEDICAL ACCELERATORS
• CHAPTER 12--BEAM SHAPING AND INTENSITY MODULATION
• CHAPTER 13--MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOGRAPHY FOR TREATMENT VERIFICATION
• CHAPTER 14--RADIATION ONCOLOGY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
• CHAPTER 15--TOMOTHERAPY
• CHAPTER 16--STEREOTACTIC IRRADIATION
• CHAPTER 17A--SPECIAL TECHNIQUES: TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION WITH PHOTON BEAMS
• CHAPTER 17B--SPECIAL TECHNIQUES: TOTAL SKIN ELECTRON IRRADIATION
• CHAPTER 17C--SPECIAL TECHNIQUES: INTRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY
• CHAPTER 18--BRACHYTHERAPY
• CHAPTER 19--DOSE MEASURING TOOLS
• CHAPTER 20--PROTON THERAPY
• CHAPTER 21--NEUTRON THERAPY
• CHAPTER 22A--HYPERTHERMIA: LOCAL HYPERTHERMIA
• CHAPTER 22B--HYPERTHERMIA: WHOLE BODY HYPERTHERMIA
• CHAPTER 23--PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY
• CHAPTER 24--BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY
• CHAPTER 25--MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY AND OTHER INTERNAL EMITTER THERAPIES
• ACRONYMS
• INDEX