Physics of Three Dimensional Radiation Therapy

• 3D radiation therapy treatment planning: Planning tools. Computer systems. Beams. Image registration. Structures from images. Dose calculation. Biological response. Treatment plan optimization: Inverse CT. Convolution dosimetry. Analytic and iterative deconvolution theory. Stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy. The physics of proton radiotherapy. Conformal radiotherapy with a multileaf collimator. Megavoltage portal imaging. Treatment machine features. Imaging for conformal radiotherapy planning: X-ray CT. MRI. SPECT. PET. CT simulators. Epilogue. Appendices: Numerical questions. Glossary. Important historical developments for contextual framing of conformal radiotherapy. Index.

"…the right book at the right time…"-Radiation Oncology"…an authoritative, timely, and effective review of the next generation of radiation therapy processes and techniques … excellent reference and guide for a course that should be mandatory for radiation oncologists and medical physicists."-William Powers, Physics Today, June 1994, pp. 75, 76"A thorough review of a developing field with future clinical applications … Excellent reading for the medical or health physicist … teachers and advanced students will find it worthy as a reference and as a textbook … I strongly recommend it."-J. Daniel Bourland, Health Physics, vol. 65, no. 5, November 1993