This book provides a first comprehensive summary of the basic principles, instrumentation, methods, and clinical applications of three-dimensional dosimetry in modern radiation therapy treatment. The presentation reflects the major growth in the field as a result of the widespread use of more sophisticated radiotherapy approaches such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy and proton therapy, which require new 3D dosimetric techniques to determine very accurately the dose distribution. It is intended as an essential guide for those involved in the design and implementation of new treatment technology and its application in advanced radiation therapy, and will enable these readers to select the most suitable equipment and methods for their application. Chapters include numerical data, examples, and case studies
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Year of Publication
2017
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction and overview of the contents of the book
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Chapter 2 Accuracy requirements for 3D dosimetry in contemporary radiation therapy
Jacob Van Dyk, Jerry J. Battista, and Glenn S. Bauman
Part II Instrumentation
Chapter 3 Detectors for reference dosimetry
Simon Duane and Ben Mijnheer
Chapter 4 Point detectors for determining and verifying 3D dose distributions
Chester Reft
Chapter 5 Polymer gel dosimetry
Yves De Deene
Chapter 6 Radiochromic 3D detectors
Mark Oldham, Titania Juang, and Suk Whan Yoon
Chapter 7 Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) dosimetry
Boyd McCurdy, Peter Greer, and James Bedford
Chapter 8 2D and semi-3D dosimetry systems
Donald A. Roberts, Kelly C. Younge, and Jean M. Moran
Part III Measurement and Computation
Chapter 9 Small field dosimetry in photon beams
Indra J Das and Paolo Francescon
Chapter 10 Special delivery techniques
Tomas Kron
Chapter 11 4D dosimetry
Emma Colvill, Jeremy Booth, and Paul Keall
Chapter 12 Light-ion beam dosimetry
Hugo Palmans
Chapter 13 Monte Carlo applications in clinical 3D dosimetry
Indrin J. Chetty and Joanna E. Cygler
Chapter 14 Quantifying differences in dose distributions
David Westerly and Moyed Miften
Part IV Clinical Applications
Chapter 15 Acceptance testing, commissioning, and QA of linear accelerators
Michael Altman and Eric Klein
Chapter 16 Commissioning and QA of treatment planning systems
Nesrin Dogan, Ivaylo B. Mihaylov, and Matthew T. Studenski
Chapter 17 Patient specific QA: pre-treatment 3D dose verification
Dietmar Georg, Catharine H. Clark, and Mohammad Hussein
Chapter 18 Patient specific QA: in vivo 3D dose verification
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Chapter 19 Audits using end-to-end tests
David S. Followill, Catharine H. Clark, and Tomas Kron
Chapter 20 Brachytherapy dosimetry in three dimensions
J. Adam M. Cunha, Christopher L. Deufel, and Mark J. Rivard
Chapter 21 Dose outside the treatment volume in external beam therapy
Stephen Kry, Rebecca Howell, and Bryan Bednarz
Chapter 22 Imaging dose in radiation therapy
Jonathan Sykes, Parham Alaei, and Emiliano Spezi
Chapter 23 Dose verification of proton and carbon ion beam treatments
Katia Parodi
Part V Emerging Technological Developments
Chapter 24 Dosimetry of small animal precision irradiators
Frank Verhaegen and Dietmar Georg
Chapter 25 3D dosimetry in synchrotron radiation therapy techniques
Elke Br?er-Krisch
Chapter 26 3D dosimetry in magnetic fields
Geoffrey S. Ibbott, Gye Won (Diane) Choi, Hannah Jungeun Lee, Yvonne Roed, and
Zhifei Wen
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Author
Ben Mijnheer
ISBN/ISSN
9781482252217
Binding
Hardback
Edition
1
Publisher
CRC Press
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