Proton and charged particle radiotherapy
By: editors, Thomas F. DeLaney, Hanne M. Kooy.
Contributors: De Laney, Thomas F.; Kooy, Hanne M.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780781765527
Subjects: Proton beams -- Therapeutic use; Radiotherapy, High energy; Cancer -- Radiotherapy; Radiotherapy, High-Energy; Protons -- therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of charged particle radiotherapy / Herman D. Suit and William Chu; title: Radiobiology of charged particles / Leo Gerweck and Harold Paganetti; title: Facility design / Edward T.M. Tsoi and Jay Flanz; title: Particle accelerators / Jay Flanz; title: Treatment delivery systems: passive beam scattering / Bernard Gottschalk; title: Treatment delivery systems: pencil beam scattering / Eros Pedroni; title: Quality assurance for proton therapy / Richard L. Maughan and Jonathan B. Farr; title: Patient positioning and set-up verification for planning and treatment / Martijn Engelsman, Alejandro Mazal, and David A. Jaffray; title: Treatment planning: principles of systems and optimization / Hanne M. Kooy ... [et al.]; title: Treatment planning: passive scattering / Hanne M. Kooy and Judy A. Adams; title: Treatment planning: intensity-modulated proton therapy / Antony John Lomax; title: Clinical issues in proton radiotherapy / Thomas F. DeLaney; title: Overview of experience with heavier charged particle radiotherapy / Hirohiko Tsujii, Tadashi Kamada, and Juergen Debus; title: Pediatric tumors / Torunn Yock ... [et al.]; title: Central nervous system / Helen A. Shih ... [et al.]; title: Eye / Evangelos S. Gragoudas ... [et al.]; title: Skull base and cervical spine / Eugen B. Hug and John E. Munzenrider; title: Bone and soft tissue / Thomas F. DeLaney and David G. Kirsch; title: Head and neck: paranasal sinus and nasal cavity / Pascal Pommier ... [et al.]; title: Head and neck: nasopharynx / Samir Patel ... [et al.]; title: Head and neck: oropharynx, oral cavity, and salivary glands / Jerry D. Slater and Ryan S. Grover; title: Prostate / Anthony L. Zietman, William U. Shipley, and Hiroshi Tsuji; title: Lung / David A. Bush; title: Gastrointestinal malignancies / Koichi Tokuuye ... [et al.]; title: Gynecologic carcinoma / Takashi Nakano ... [et al.]; title: Breast / Shannon M. MacDonald and Alphonse G. Taghian; title: Potential role of proton therapy in the management of lymphoma / Nancy Price Mendenhall and Daniel Yeung.