Contemporary IMRT

Name: Contemporary IMRT
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation

By: S. Webb

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Hardcover | 1 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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492 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 3.18

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The most important radiotherapy modality used today, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), is the most technologically advanced radiotherapy cancer treatment available, rapidly replacing conformal and three-dimensional techniques. Because of these changes, oncologists and radiotherapists need up-to-date information gathered by physicists and engineers. Focusing on new developments and the preliminary clinical implementation, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation discusses the relationship between these advances and applications.

Capturing contemporary technological advances, the book reviews modern applications of IMRT and shows how IMRT is used now and how it will be used in the future. The book begins with a historical background of IMRT as well as a discussion of the current state of IMRT. It also covers technical solutions that have been commercialized, such as the sliding window technique, step-and-shoot, tomotherapy, and the Cyberknife. The final chapter explores imaging developments and new planning methods, including gradient-descent and split modulation.

Covering recent advancements in IMRT and showing how these techniques and devices have been implemented, Contemporary IMRT: Developing Physics and Clinical Implementation provides state-of-the-art findings for oncologists, radiotherapists, radiographers, physicists, and engineers.

Industry Reviews

"... the author presents a remarkably exhaustive review of the published material on the physics and clinical implementation of IMRT since the summer of 2000 through June 2004. This is also the author's most recent volume in a series of four on radiation therapy, and his second book devoted exclusively to developments in IMRT. ...Overall, this book reviews a vast amount of valuable published material to give the reader an exhaustive and accurate account of developments in the physics and clinical implementation of IMRT over the last four years. It is an excellent review that will serve as a valuable reference for the practicing physicist."
- Medical Physics

"Contemporary IMRT covers the latest developments in the field of intensity modulated radiation therapy between 2000 and 2004, and is a wonderful and exhaustive book with almost 1,500 references, mostly published in this period. The wealth of newly published work makes a review book like this invaluable for anybody who wants to understand and contribute to the exciting world of contemporary radiation therapy...Especially valuable is an extensive review of early clinical IMRT evidence, primarily expressed as reduced toxicity due to more efficient critical organ sparing."
- Physics in Medicine and Biology

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