tailieunhanh - INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY

CONFORMAL AND INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY—WHY AND HOW? Scientific rationale Whilst drug development plays an important but expensive role in the treatment of some cancers, it is estimated that, at a time when 2% of patients are cured by drugs, some 30% are cured by a combination of surgery and radiotherapy. Radiotherapy may be the ‘sticking plaster of cancer’ but it is likely to be necessary for many decades to come and it merits continual development. The development of 3D conformal radiotherapy (CFRT), in which the high-dose volume matches the target volume and avoids normal tissues, has been a major theme for improving the physical basis of radiotherapy. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is. | IoP Institute of Physics Series in Medical Physics LNJENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY s Webb INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY Series in Medical Science Series Editors CG Orton Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University J A E Spaan University of Amsterdam The Netherlands J G Webster University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Other books in the series The Physics of Medical Imaging S Webb ed The Physics of Three-Dimensional Radiation Therapy Conformal Radiotherapy Radiosurgery and Treatment Planning S Webb The Physics of Conformal Radiotherapy Advances in Technology S Webb Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering B H Brown R H Smallwood D C Barber P V Lawford and D R Hose Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Technology C-N Chen and DI Hoult Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation R A Cooper Physics for Diagnostic Radiology second edition P P Dendy and B H Heaton Linear Accelerators for Radiation Therapy second edition D Greene and P C Williams Health Effects of Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation W R Hendee and F M Edwards eds Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine M Ljungberg S-E Strand and M A King eds Introductory Medical Statistics third edition R F Mould The Design of Pulse Oxymeters J G Webster ed Ultrasound in Medicine F A Duck A C Baker and H C Starritt eds Of related interest From the Watching of Shadows The Origins of Radiological Tomography S .