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Khan's treatment planning in radiation oncology / editors, Faiz M. Khan, John P. Gibbons, Paul W. Sperduto.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2016Edition: 4th editionDescription: 1 online resource (662 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469889993
  • 1469889994
Uniform titles:
  • Treatment planning in radiation oncology.
  • Preceded by: Treatment planning in radiation oncology. 3rd ed.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Khan's treatment planning in radiation oncology.DDC classification:
  • 616.99/40642 23
LOC classification:
  • RC271.R3
NLM classification:
  • QZ 269
Online resources:
Contents:
Section I: Physics and biology of treatment planning. Introduction: process, equipment, and personnel -- Imaging in radiotherapy -- Treatment simulation -- Treatment planning algorithms: photon dose calculations -- Treatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy -- Treatment planning algorithms: electron beams -- Treatment planning algorithms: proton therapy -- Commissioning and quality assurance -- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy: photons -- Intensity-modulated proton therapy -- Patient and organ movement -- Image-guided radiation therapy -- Linac radiosurgery: system requirements, procedures, and testing -- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy -- Low dose-rate brachytherapy -- High dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning -- Electron beam treatment planning -- Proton beam therapy -- Role of protons versus photons in modern radiotherapy: clinical perspective -- Fractionation: radiobiologic principles and clinical practice -- Radiobiology of stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy -- Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic radiation -- Treatment plan evaluation -- Section II: Treatment planning for specific cancers. Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract -- Gynecologic malignancies -- Cancer of the genitourinary tract: prostate cancer -- Genitourinary cancers: bladder cancer -- Cancers of the genitourinary tract: testis -- The 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/lung -- Soft tissue and bone sarcomas.
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Revised edition of Treatment planning in radiation oncology / editors, Faiz M. Khan, Bruce J. Gerbi. 3rd ed. c2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from resource home page (Ovid, viewed January 11, 2017).

Section I: Physics and biology of treatment planning. Introduction: process, equipment, and personnel -- Imaging in radiotherapy -- Treatment simulation -- Treatment planning algorithms: photon dose calculations -- Treatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy -- Treatment planning algorithms: electron beams -- Treatment planning algorithms: proton therapy -- Commissioning and quality assurance -- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy: photons -- Intensity-modulated proton therapy -- Patient and organ movement -- Image-guided radiation therapy -- Linac radiosurgery: system requirements, procedures, and testing -- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy -- Low dose-rate brachytherapy -- High dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning -- Electron beam treatment planning -- Proton beam therapy -- Role of protons versus photons in modern radiotherapy: clinical perspective -- Fractionation: radiobiologic principles and clinical practice -- Radiobiology of stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy -- Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic radiation -- Treatment plan evaluation -- Section II: Treatment planning for specific cancers. Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract -- Gynecologic malignancies -- Cancer of the genitourinary tract: prostate cancer -- Genitourinary cancers: bladder cancer -- Cancers of the genitourinary tract: testis -- The 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/lung -- Soft tissue and bone sarcomas.

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