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External Beam Therapy, Second Edition is an essential, practical resource to guide the use of external beam radiotherapy, highlighting the rapid technological advances made in recent years.
Review of Radiation Oncology Physics: A Handbook for Teachers and Students. Objective: To familiarize the student with a variety of modern photon beam radiotherapy techniques to achieve a uniform dose distribution inside the target volume and a dose as low as possible in the healthy tissues surrounding the target.
Initial chapters give detailed insight into the fundamentals of clinical radiotherapy including the physics of photon and electron beams, protons and stereotactic body radiotherapy. This is followed by systematic details for each tumour site commonly treated with radiotherapy.
Computerized Treatment Planning Systems (TPS) are used in external beam radiation therapy to generate beam shapes and dose distributions with the intent to maximize tumor control and minimize normal tissue complications.
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Introduction. IMRT is a technique which uses beams that, unlike the flat or wedged beams of conventional RT, have changing dose intensity across them, as shown in Figure 6.1 (Webb, 2003; Bortfeld, 2006).
The CEBRE discussion guide describes the external beam radiation therapy care path from consultation through follow-up using a graphic narrative format. A graphic narrative panel is included for each of the following steps in the radiation therapy treatment process: (1) consult, (2) simulation, (3) planning, (4) treatment, and (5) follow-up.
Chapter 12: Quality Assurance of External Beam Radiotherapy. Set of 146 slides based on the chapter authored by D. I. Thwaites, B. J. Mijnheer, J. A. Mills of the IAEA publication (ISBN 92-0-107304-6): Review of Radiation Oncology Physics: A Handbook for Teachers and Students. Objective:
