Khan’s Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology

Description:

Offering comprehensive coverage of the clinical, physical, and technical aspects of radiation treatment planning, Khan?

€™s Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology, Fifth Edition, provides a team approach to this complex field.

Drs.

Paul W.

Sperduto and John P.

Gibbons are joined by expert contributing authors who focus on the application of physical and clinical concepts to solve treatment planning problems?

€”helping you provide effective, state-of-the-art care for cancer patients.

This unique, well-regarded text has been updated throughout to reflect the most current practices in today?

€™s radiation oncology treatment.

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Table of Contents:

SECTION I Treatment Planning: Safety and Biological Principles

CHAPTER 1 Patient Safety

CHAPTER 2 Normal Tissue Tolerance

CHAPTER 3 Fractionation: Radiobiologic Principles and Clinical Practice

CHAPTER 4 Immunologic Principles of Treatment Planning: Radiation as In Situ Vaccine and Dose Fractionation in the Immunotherapy Era

SECTION II Treatment Planning: Site-Specific Cancers

CHAPTER 5 Cancers of the Central Nervous System

CHAPTER 6 Cancers of the Head and Neck

CHAPTER 7 Cancers of the Thorax/Lung

CHAPTER 8 Breast Cancer

CHAPTER 9 Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract

CHAPTER 10 Cancer of the Genitourinary Tract: Prostate, Bladder, and Testicular Cancer

CHAPTER 11 Gynecologic Malignancies

CHAPTER 12 The Lymphomas

CHAPTER 13 Cancers of the Skin, Including Mycosis Fungoides

CHAPTER 14 Pediatric Malignancies

CHAPTER 15 Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma

SECTION III Treatment Planning: Physics and Dosimetric Principles

CHAPTER 16 Introduction: Process, Equipment, and Personnel

CHAPTER 17 Image-Guided Radiation Therapy

CHAPTER 18 Deformable Image Registration

CHAPTER 19 Patient Simulation

CHAPTER 20 Treatment Planning Algorithms: Photon Dose Calculations

CHAPTER 21 Treatment Planning Algorithms: Brachytherapy

CHAPTER 22 Treatment Planning Algorithms: Electron Beams

CHAPTER 23 Treatment Planning Algorithms: Proton Therapy

CHAPTER 24 Commissioning and Quality Assurance

CHAPTER 25 Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: Photons

CHAPTER 26 Patient and Organ Movement

CHAPTER 27 Linac Radiosurgery: System Requirements, Procedures, and Testing

CHAPTER 28 Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy

CHAPTER 29 Low Dose-Rate Brachytherapy

CHAPTER 30 High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Treatment Planning

CHAPTER 31 Electron Beam Treatment Planning

CHAPTER 32 Proton Beam Therapy

CHAPTER 33 Treatment Plan Evaluation

CHAPTER 34 Knowledge-Based Treatment Planning

Index