Particle Radiotherapy Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rath, Arabinda Kumar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sahoo, Narayan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

The results of decades of research and development are providing compelling evidence about the efficacy of radiation therapy with proton and carbon ion beams to achieve superior complication free tumor control leading to a world-wide rapid growth in their clinical use. This book contains comprehensi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Particle Therapy in the Third Millennium Current Status and Future Outlook
• Development of Cyclotrons for Proton and Particle Therapy
• Development of C-ion Radiotherapy Technologies in Japan
• Physical rationale for protontherapy and elements to build a clinical center
• Radiation Dosimetry of Proton Beams
• Clinical pencil beam scanning: present and future practices
• Treatment planning for protons – An essay.- Radiation Therapy with Protons and Heavy Ions
• Robustness Quantification and Worst-Case Robust Optimization in Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy
• Modeling of Biological Effect of Charged Particles for C-Ion RT
• SFUD, IMPT and plan robustness.