Overview
- Practical handbook on selection and delineation of tumor volumes and fields for conformal radiation therapy, including IMRT
- Helpful format facilitating use on a step-by-step basis in daily practice
- Designed to ensure accurate coverage of commonly encountered tumors along their routes of spread
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This handbook will enable radiation oncologists to appropriately and confidently select and delineate tumor volumes/fields for conformal radiation therapy, including intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), in patients with commonly encountered cancers. The orientation of this handbook  is entirely practical, in that the focus is on the illustration of clinical target volume (CTV) delineation for each major malignancy. Each chapter provides guidelines and concise knowledge on treatment planning and CTV selection, explains how the anatomy of lymphatic drainage shapes target volume selection, and presents detailed illustrations of delineations, slice by slice, on planning CT images. While the emphasis is on target volume delineation for three-dimensional conformal therapy and IMRT, information is also provided on conventional radiation therapy field setup and planning for certain malignancies for which IMRT is not currently suitable.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Target Volume Delineation and Field Setup
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide for Conformal and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Editors: Nancy Y. Lee, Jiade J. Lu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28860-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28860-9Published: 18 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 151 illustrations in colour
Topics: Radiotherapy, Oncology, Imaging / Radiology