IMRT, IGRT, SBRT - Advances in the Treatment Planning and Delivery of Radiotherapy (Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Vol. 40)

Over the last 4 years, "IMRT, IGRT, SBRT: Advances in the Treatment Planning and Delivery of Radiotherapy" has become a standard reference in the field. During this time, however, significant progress in high-precision technologies for the planning and delivery of radiotherapy in cancer treatment has called for a second edition to include these new developments. Thoroughly updated and extended, this new edition offers a comprehensive guide and overview of these new technologies and the many clinical treatment programs that bring them into practical use. Advances in intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), and 4D and adaptive treatment planning are clearly presented. Target localization and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems are comprehensively reviewed as well. Clinical tutorials illustrate target definitions for the major cancer sites, and useful techniques for organ motion management are described and compared. There are also several chapters that explore the technical basis and latest clinical experience with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and summarize practical treatment recommendations. Furthermore, the significant and increasing contributions of proton therapy to cancer care are also highlighted, alongside the practical allocation of all these new technologies from an economic perspective. As a highlight of this volume, a number of images can be viewed online in time-elapse videos for greater clarity and more dynamic visualization Written by leading authorities in the field, this comprehensive volume brings clinical and technical practitioners of radiotherapy fully up to date with the key developments in equipment, technologies and treatment guidelines. ASD ZONE.pdf......Page 1 1.Contents.pdf......Page 2 2.New Technologies in the Radiotherapy Clinic.pdf......Page 12 3.From New Frontiers to New Standards of Practice.pdf......Page 29 4.Obstacles and Advances in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy treatment planning.pdf......Page 51 5.Four-Dimensional Imaging and Treatment Planning of Moving Targets.pdf......Page 69 6.Image Guidance Treatment Target Localization Systems.pdf......Page 82 7.Image Registration in Intensity- Modulated, Image-Guided and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.pdf......Page 104 8.Kilovoltage Volumetric Imaging in the Treatment Room.pdf......Page 126 9.Megavoltage Imaging, Megavoltage Cone Beam CT and Dose-Guided.pdf......Page 142 10.The Cyberknife Practical Experience with Treatment Planning and delivery.pdf......Page 153 11.Helical Tomotherapy Image Guidance and Adaptive Dose Guidance.pdf......Page 172 12.Introducing New Technologies into the Clinic.pdf......Page 189 13.Delineating Neck Targets for Intensity- Modulated Radiation Therapy of head neck cancer.pdf......Page 203 14.Nasopharyngeal and Oropharyngeal Carcinomas.pdf......Page 218 15.A Discussion of the Clinical Use of Advanced Technologies in Head and neck cancer.pdf......Page 242 16.Lung Cancer.pdf......Page 249 17.Partial Breast Irradiation.pdf......Page 263 18.Upper Abdominal Malignancies Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy.pdf......Page 282 19.Prostate Cancer Image Guidance and Adaptive Therapy.pdf......Page 299 20.New Technologies for the Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer.pdf......Page 325 21.The Promise of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in a New Era of oncology.pdf......Page 348 22.Optimizing Dose and Fractionation for Stereotactic Body Radiation therapy.pdf......Page 361 23.Lung Cancer A Model for Implementing Stereotactic Body Radiation therapy in practice.pdf......Page 375 24.Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer.pdf......Page 394 25.Prostate Cancer Therapy with Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy.pdf......Page 403 26.Spinal and Paraspinal Lesions The Role of Stereotactic Body.pdf......Page 415 27.Liver, Renal, and Retroperitoneal Tumors Stereotactic Radiotherapy.pdf......Page 423 28.Author Index.pdf......Page 435 29.Subject Index.pdf......Page 437 Now 2nd, revised and extended edition (2011) IMRT, IGRT, SBRT A Karger 'Publishing Highlights 18902015' title New high-precision technologies for the planning and delivery of radiotherapy are major advances in cancer treatment. This volume is a comprehensive guidebook to these new technologies and the many clinical treatment programs that bring them into practical use. Advances in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), 4D and adaptive treatment planning are clearly explained, and the new target localization and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems are comprehensively reviewed. Clinical tutorials fully illustrate the target definitions for the major cancer sites, and techniques for organ motion management are shown. In addition, chapters explore the technical basis for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and the latest clinical experience with it for most organ sites. In this volume, foremost authorities explain the important new techniques and technologies of radiation oncology, and give essential treatment guidelines for its clinical and technical practitioners.