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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.
Incorporates the most up-to-date imaging techniques and radiation treatment modalities used to treat patients with cancer.
Contains new chapters on patient safety, knowledge-based treatment planning and the treatments planning implications of combined radiation and immunotherapy.
Includes key points for more focused study and study questions at the end of each chapter, many with newly expanded explanations.
Discusses the scientific background and the key aspects of each clinical approach to ensure that you gain a well-rounded understanding of how to plan treatment from both a technical and a clinical perspective.
Author(s): Faiz M. Khan, Paul W. Sperduto, John P. Gibbons
Edition: 5
Publisher: LWW Wolters Kluwer Health
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: CONVERTED PDF
Tags: Radiation Oncology; Radiology; Oncology; Cancer
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contributors
Preface
Preface to First Edition
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
