Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction to Radiotherapy

   1. Fundamental Radiobiology and its Application to Radiation Oncology

      • Francesca M. Buffa

      Pages 3-9

   2. Accuracy Strategies in Radiotherapy

      • Günther H. Hartmann

      Pages 11-27

3. X-Rays Teletherapy

   1. Dosimetry for Photon and Electron Radiation

      • Günther H. Hartmann

      Pages 31-55

   2. Nomenclature in Radiotherapy

      • Günther H. Hartmann

      Pages 57-70

   3. Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy

      • Alan Mckenzie

      Pages 71-79

   4. Radiotherapy Accidents

      • Alan Mckenzie

      Pages 81-85

   5. Clinical Applications of 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy

      • Raymond Miralbell

      Pages 87-94

   6. Treatment Planning: IMRT Optimization — Basic and Advanced Techniques

      • Simeon Nill

      Pages 95-106

   7. Treatment Planning: Stereotactic Treatment Techniques

      • Simeon Nill

      Pages 107-112

   8. Image Guided Radiotherapy

      • Uwe Oelfke

      Pages 113-125

   9. Clinical Use of 3-D Image Registration

      • Peter Remeijer

      Pages 127-133

   10. Geometrical Uncertainties in Radiotherapy

       • Peter Remeijer

       Pages 135-140

   11. Delivery of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Including Compensation for Organ Motion

       • Steve Webb

       Pages 141-161

4. Hadrontherapy

   1. Hadrontherapy: Cancer Treatment With Proton and Carbon Beams

      • Ugo Amaldi, Gerhard Kraft

      Pages 165-171

   2. Proton Therapy

      • Uwe Oelfke

      Pages 173-181

5. Brachytherapy

   1. Photon Sources for Brachytherapy

      • Alex Rijnders

      Pages 185-193

   2. Calibration of Photon Sources for Brachytherapy

      • Alex Rijnders

      Pages 195-208

   3. Cancer of the Cervix: Examples of BT Treatment Techniques

      • Inger-Lena Lamm

      Pages 209-218

   4. Paris System for Interstitial Brachytherapy

      • Ginette Marinello

      Pages 219-225

This book reports the majority of lectures given during the NATO Advanced Study Institute ASI-982996, which was held at the European Scientific Institute of Archamps (ESI, Archamps – France) from November 15 to November 27, 2007. The ASI course was structured in two parts: the first was dedicated to what is often called “teletherapy”, i. e. radiotherapy with external beams, while the second focused on internal radiotherapy, also called “brachytherapy” or “curietherapy” in honour of Madame Curie who initiated the technique about a century ago. This ASI took place after the European School of Medical Physics, which devoted a 3 week period to medical imaging, a subject complementary to the topics of this book. Courses devoted to nuclear medicine and digital imaging techniques are collected in two volumes of the NATO Science Series entitled “Physics for Medical Imaging Applications” (ISBN 978-1-4020-5650-5) and “Molecular imaging: computer reconstruction and practice” (ISBN 978-1-4020- 8751-6). Every year in autumn ESI organises the European School of Medical Physics, which covers a large spectrum of topics ranging from Medical Imaging to Radiotherapy, over a period of 5 weeks. Thanks to the Cooperative Science and Technology sub-programme of the NATO Science Division, weeks four and five were replaced this year by the ASI course dedicated to “Physics of Modern Radiotherapy & Brachytherapy”. This allowed the participation of experts and students from 20 different countries, with diverse cultural background and p- fessional experience.

• Biophysics
• Conformal Radiotherapy
• Modulated Radiotherapy
• NATO
• Peace
• Physics
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series B
• X-ray
• brachytherapy
• computed tomography (CT)
• imaging
• magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• tomography
• Radiaton Oncology

• European Scientific Institute, Site d'Archamps, France

  Yves Lemoigne, Alessandra Caner

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