EAN: 9783319424774

PRACTICAL GUIDES IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY TARGET...

This handbook is designed to enable radiation oncologists to treat patients appropriately and
confidently by means of particle therapy. The orientation and purpose are entirely practical 
in that the focus is on the physics essentials of delivery and treatment planning  
illustration of the clinical target volume (CTV) and associated treatment planning for each
major malignancy when using particle therapy  proton therapy in particular. Disease-specific
chapters provide guidelines and concise knowledge on CTV selection and delineation and identify
aspects that require the exercise of caution during treatment planning. The treatment planning
techniques unique to proton therapy for each disease site are clearly described  covering beam
orientation  matching patching field techniques  robustness planning  robustness plan
evaluation  etc. The published data on the use of particle therapy for a given disease site are
also concisely reported. In addition to fully meeting the needs of radiation oncologists  this
know why and know how guide to particle therapy will be valuable for medical physicists 
dosimetrists  and radiation therapists.

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