#29 Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: The State of the Art (AAPM 2003 Summer School) (CD-ROM Version) Price Reduced!
Author: Jatinder R. Palta and T. Rockwell Mackie, editorsISBN: 9781930524170
Published: 2003 | | CD-ROM
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Table of Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Historical Perspective on IMRT
Steve Webb, PhD, DSc
Mathematical Optimization for the Inverse Problem of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Yair Censor, D.Sc
Physical Optimization
Thomas R. Bortfeld, PhD
Biological Indices for Evaluation and Optimization of IMRT
Ellen D. Yorke, PhD
Aperture-Based Inverse Planning
D.M. Shepard, PhD, M.A. Earl, PhD, C.X. Yu, D.Sc, Y. Xiao, PhD
Medical Imaging in IMRT Planning
Charles A. Pelizzari, PhD
Target and Critical Structure Definitions, Dose Presecription and Reporting for IMRT
James Balter, PhD
What Is Different About IMRT?
Mark Langer, MD
IMRT Delivery Using Serial Tomotherapy
Bruce Curran, ME, MS
Helical Tomotherapy
Thomas Rockwell Mackie, PhD, Gustavo H. Olivera, PhD, Jeffrey M. Kapatoes, PhD, Kenneth J. Ruchala, PhD, John P.
Balog, PhD, Wolfgang A. Tome, PhD, Susanta Hui, PhD, Michael Kissick, PhD, Chuan Wu, MS, Robert Jeraj, PhD, Paul
J. Reckwerdt, BS, Paul Harari, MD, Mark Ritter, MD, PhD, Lisa Forrest, VMD, James Welsh, MD, MS, and Minesh P.
Mehta, MD
Static MLC IMRT (Step and Shoot)
Arthur Boyer, PhD
Dynamic MLC IMRT
Paul Keall, PhD, Qiuwen Wu, PhD, Yan Wu, MS, and Jong Oh Kim, PhD
Functional Requirements for IMRT
Timothy J. Waldron, MS
Radiation Shielding for IMRT
Daniel A. Low, PhD
Dosimetry Metrology for IMRT
Jean M. Moran, PhD
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy:
The Good, the Bad and the Misconceptions
James M. Galvin, DSc
Commissioning and Quality Assurance for IMRT Treatment Planning
Michael B. Sharpe, PhD, DABMP
Clinical Implementation of IMRT Treatment Planning
Gary A. Ezzell, PhD
Patient-Specific Quality Assurance in IMRT
Ping Xia, PhD and Cynthia Chuang, PhD
Monitor Unit Calculation and Plan Validation for Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Lei Xing, PhD, Y. Yang, PhD, Jonathan G. Li, PhD, Yan Chen, PhD, Gary Luxton, PhD, Zhe Chen, PhD, Y. Song, PhD,
and Arthur L. Boyer, PhD
Monte Carlo and IMRT
Jeffrey V. Siebers, PhD and Radhe Mohan, PhD
IMRT Delivery System QA
Thomas J. LoSasso, PhD
Tolerance Limits and Action Levels for Planning and Delivery of IMRT
Jatinder R. Palta, PhD, Siyong Kim, PhD, Jonathan G. Li, PhD, and Chihray Liu, PhD
Quality Assurance: When and What Is Enough for IMRT?
Gary A. Ezzell, PhD
IMRT for Prostate Cancer
Alan Pollack, MD, PhD and Robert A. Price, PhD
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer
K.S. Clifford Chao, MD and Angel I. Blanco, MD
Lung Cancer Radiotherapy
Craig W. Stevens, MD, PhD, Thomas Guerrero, MD, PhD and Kenneth M. Forster, PhD
Methods to Manage Respiratory Motion in Radiation Treatment
John Wong, PhD
X-Ray-Guided IMRT
David A. Jaffray, PhD
Patient Positioning Using Optical and Ultrasound Techniques
Sanford L. Meeks, PhD, Wolfgang A. Tome, PhD, Lionel G. Bouchet, PhD, A. Curtis Hass, MD, John M. Buatti, MD,
Francis J. Bova, PhD
Modulated Electron Therapy
Kenneth R. Hogstrom, PhD, John A. Antolak, PhD, Rajat J. Kudchadker, PhD, C.-M. Charlie Ma, PhD and Dennis D.
Leavitt, PhD
Compensated and Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy
Tony Lomax, PhD
Socio-Economic Issues of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy
Michael T. Gillin, PhD
The Future of IMRT
Jerry J. Battista, PhD, and Glenn S. Bauman, PhD
Novel Uses and Applications of IMRT
James S. Welsh, MS, MD, Gustavo H. Olivera, PhD, and T. Rochwell Mackie, PhD
List of Acronyms