TY - BOOK AU - Khan,Faiz M. AU - Gibbons,John P. AU - Sperduto,Paul W. TI - Khan's treatment planning in radiation oncology SN - 9781469889993 PY - 2016/// CY - Philadelphia, PA PB - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business Kluwer KW - Cancer KW - Radiotherapy KW - Neoplasms KW - radiotherapy KW - Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted KW - Radiation Oncology KW - methods N1 - Revised edition of Treatment planning in radiation oncology / editors, Faiz M. Khan, Bruce J. Gerbi. 3rd ed. c2012; Includes bibliographical references and index; Section I: Physics and biology of treatment planning. Introduction: process, equipment, and personnel -- Imaging in radiotherapy -- Treatment simulation -- Treatment planning algorithms: photon dose calculations -- Treatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy -- Treatment planning algorithms: electron beams -- Treatment planning algorithms: proton therapy -- Commissioning and quality assurance -- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy: photons -- Intensity-modulated proton therapy -- Patient and organ movement -- Image-guided radiation therapy -- Linac radiosurgery: system requirements, procedures, and testing -- Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy -- Low dose-rate brachytherapy -- High dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning -- Electron beam treatment planning -- Proton beam therapy -- Role of protons versus photons in modern radiotherapy: clinical perspective -- Fractionation: radiobiologic principles and clinical practice -- Radiobiology of stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy -- Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic radiation -- Treatment plan evaluation -- Section II: Treatment planning for specific cancers. Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract -- Gynecologic malignancies -- Cancer of the genitourinary tract: prostate cancer -- Genitourinary cancers: bladder cancer -- Cancers of the genitourinary tract: testis -- The lymphomas -- Cancers of the head and neck -- Cancers of the skin, including mycosis fungoides -- Breast cancer -- Cancers of the central nervous system -- Pediatric malignancies -- Cancers of the thorax/lung -- Soft tissue and bone sarcomas UR - #gotoholdings ER -