Carbon-ion radiotherapy
Subtitle: principles, practices, and treatment planning
By: Hirohiko Tsujii, Tadashi Kamada, Toshiyuki Shirai, Koji Noda, Hiroshi Tsuji, Kumiko Karasawa, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9784431544562; 9784431544579
Subjects: Cancer; Radiotherapy; Heavy Ion Radiotherapy; Methods; Neoplasms; Instrumentation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The history of carbon-ion radiotherapy; title: pt. II. An overview of carbon-ion radiotherapy; title: pt. III. Radiobiology of carbon-ion radiotherapy; title: pt. IV. Carbon-ion radiotherapy system; title: pt. V. Treatment planning of carbon-ion radiotherapy; title: pt. VI. Facility design; title: pt. VII. Oncology information systems; title: pt. VIII. Evaluation of treatment outcome; title: pt. IX. Head and neck tumors; title: pt. X. Skull base and paracervical tumors; title: pt. XI. Eye tumors; title: pt. XII. Lung tumors; title: pt. XIII. GI tract tumors; title: pt. XIV. Liver tumors; title: pt. XV. Pancreatic cancer; title: pt. XVI. Genitourianry tumors; title: pt. XVII. Gynecologic tumors; title: pt. XVIII. Bone and soft tissue sarcomas; title: pt. XIX. Other tumors.