Practical Radiotherapy: Physics and Equipment

✍ Scribed by Pam Cherry, Angela Duxbury

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Practical Radiotherapy introduces the reader to the physics and equipment that is central to radiotherapy practice. This Second Edition has been extensively revised and is fully up to date with key developments in equipment and practice, namely: stereotacic radiosurgery, CT SIM and SIM CT, portal imaging, MLC and HDR brachytherapy.  Practical Radiotherapy is written by an experienced team of practitioners and teachers who present a difficult and dry subject in a reader-friendly manner, covering all of the required core information.

✦ Table of Contents

asd rules......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 5
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
1. BASIC SKILLS FOR RADIOTHERAPY PHYSICS......Page 10
2. X - RAY PRODUCTION......Page 25
3. RADIATION DOSIMETRY......Page 34
4. X - RAY INTERACTIONS WITH MATTER......Page 45
5. PRE - TREATMENT IMAGING......Page 57
6. SIMULATION EQUIPMENT......Page 92
7. IMMOBILISATION EQUIPMENT......Page 122
8. MEGAVOLTAGE EQUIPMENT......Page 140
9. KILOVOLTAGE EQUIPMENT......Page 158
10. TREATMENT PLANNING AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS......Page 170
11. METHODS OF BEAM DIRECTION......Page 205
12. ADVANCED TREATMENT DELIVERY......Page 213
13. TREATMENT VERIFICATION......Page 223
14. INTRODUCTION TO RADIATION PROTECTION......Page 237
15. USE OF RADIONUCLIDES IN IMAGING AND THERAPY......Page 248
16. SEALED SOURCES IN RADIOTHERAPY......Page 266
Appendix: SELF - TEST ANSWERS......Page 278
INDEX......Page 293