John L. Meyer Boeken

New high-precision technologies for the planning and delivery of radiotherapy are major advances in cancer treatment. This volume is a comprehensive guidebook to these new technologies and the many clinical treatment programs that bring them into practical use. Advances in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), 4D and adaptive treatment planning are clearly explained, and the new target localization and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) systems are comprehensively reviewed. Clinical tutorials fully illustrate the target definitions for the major cancer sites, and techniques for organ motion management are shown. In addition, chapters explore the technical basis for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and the latest clinical experience with it for most organ sites. In this volume, foremost authorities explain the important new techniques and technologies of radiation oncology, and give essential treatment guidelines for its clinical and technical practitioners.

Book by San Francisco Cancer Symposium 1997, Meyer, John

This guidebook explores critical issues in the design and delivery of computerized radiotherapy, including CT simulation, CT/MRI integration, 3-D treatment planning, plan optimization, on-line portal imaging, multileaf collimation, dose intensity modulation and computerized treatment delivery.

Presents material on organ preservation in curative cancer therapy for each of the major tumour sites, emphasizing the treatment of breast cancer. The latest advances in diagnosis and radiation therapy are covered systematically, as these are critical to treatment approaches.