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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300319603321

Titolo

Target Volume Delineation and Treatment Planning for Particle Therapy : A Practical Guide / / edited by Nancy Y. Lee, Jonathan E. Leeman, Oren Cahlon, Kevin Sine, Guoliang Jiang, Jiade J. Lu, Stefan Both

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-42478-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 396 p. 1508 illus., 834 illus. in color.)

Collana

Practical Guides in Radiation Oncology, , 2522-5715

Disciplina

616.9940642

Soggetti

Radiotherapy

Oncology  

Oncology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Physics Essentials of Particle Therapy -- Treatment Delivery -- Treatment Planning -- Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma -- Oral Cavity -- Oropharyngeal Carcinoma -- Paranasal Sinuses -- Salivary Glands -- Thyroid Cancer -- Skin Cancer -- Re-irradiation for head and neck cancer -- Lung Cancer -- Upper Gastrointestinal Tract -- Lower Gastrointestinal Tract -- Breast Cancer -- Gynecologic Cancer -- Genitourinary Cancer -- Intracranial Malignancies -- Spine Malignancies -- Soft Tissue Sarcoma -- Lymphoma -- Pediatric Malignancies -- Skull base chordomas/chondrosarcomas.

Sommario/riassunto

This handbook is designed to enable radiation oncologists to treat patients appropriately and confidently by means of particle therapy. The orientation and purpose are entirely practical, in that the focus is on the physics essentials of delivery and treatment planning , illustration of the clinical target volume (CTV) and associated treatment planning for each major malignancy when using particle therapy, proton therapy in particular. Disease-specific chapters provide guidelines and concise knowledge on CTV selection and delineation and identify aspects that require the exercise of caution during treatment planning. The treatment planning techniques unique to proton therapy for each disease site are clearly described, covering



beam orientation, matching/patching field techniques, robustness planning, robustness plan evaluation, etc. The published data on the use of particle therapy for a given disease site are also concisely reported. In addition to fully meeting the needs of radiation oncologists, this "know why" and “know how” guide to particle therapy will be valuable for medical physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists.