Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 328 p)
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ill. (some col.)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0824726979
Content:
For radiation oncologists and physicists who want an authoritative overview of emerging developments in the field, as well as clear direction on the utilization of this new technology in clinical practice, this reference provides in-depth descriptions of new and promising stereotactic methods for the application of stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of extracranial tumors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Front cover""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The ELEKTA Stereotactic Body Frame""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SYSTEM DESCRIPTION""; ""Patient Fixation""; ""The Stereotactic Reference System""; ""Breathing Control""; ""Dose Absorption of the SBF""; ""ACCURACY OF PATIENT AND TARGET REPRODUCIBILITY IN THE SBF""; ""TREATMENT PLANNING AND DELIVERY Patient Positioning in the SBF and CT-Planning Study""; ""Target Definition and 3D-Treatment Planning""; ""Target Verification and Irradiation""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Novalis""; ""INTRODUCTION""
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""SYSTEM DESCRIPTION""""PATIENT POSITIONING Description""; ""VERIFICATION AND CLINICAL VALIDATION Phantom Measurements""; ""Patient Studies""; ""Table 1 Average Residual Setup Error (mm) and Standard Deviation (in Parenth-eses)""; ""Table 2 Percentage of Moderate ( 5mm) and Large ( 10 mm) Errors for the""; ""Discussion""; ""TREATMENT PLANNING AND TREATMENT DELIVERY Dynamic Arc""; ""IMRS""; ""TREATMENT VERIFICATION The AZ-VUB Approach""; ""The UCLA Approach""; ""TREATMENT OF MOVING TARGETS""; ""CAPABILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF THE TECHNIQUE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""
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""4 Whole-Body Radiosurgery with the CyberKnife""""INTRODUCTION""; ""Technological Limitations""; ""Why Image-Guided Robotic Radiosurgery?""; ""Related Work""; ""SYSTEM OVERVIEW""; ""INVERSE PLANNING""; ""Phase 1: Node Selection""; ""Phase 2: Beam Weighting""; ""RESPIRATION TRACKING""; ""CLINICAL TRIALS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 Serial Tomotherapeutic Approaches to Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy""; ""SYSTEM DESCRIPTION AND OPERATION""; ""PATIENT IMMOBILIZATION AND ALIGNMENT""; ""TREATMENT PLANNING""; ""Case Report""; ""TREATMENT VERIFICATION""
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""TREATMENT OF MOVING TARGETS""""LOGISTICS OF THE METHOD""; ""FUTURE DIRECTIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 Anatomical and Biological Imaging""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""APPROPRIATE SELECTION OF PATIENTS""; ""The Role of Imaging in the Selection of Patients with Lung Cancer""; ""The Role of Imaging in the Selection of Patients with Hepatic Malignancies""; ""The Role of Imaging in the Selection of Patients with Vertebral Metastases""; ""GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TARGET DEFINITION""; ""GENERATING REPRESENTATIVE PLANNING CT SCANS""; ""Full Characterization and Incorporation of Internal Mobility""
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""Minimizing Respiratory Motion""""Respiratory Gating""; ""Tumor Tracking Radiotherapy""; ""REPEATED TREATMENT PLANNING IN BETWEEN FRACTIONS""; ""SITE SPECIFIC COMMENTS Table: Site-Specific Aspects of Imaging for ECSRT""; ""FOLLOW-UP IMAGING""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 Radiobiological Considerations of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy""; ""INTRODUCTION: CLINICAL RADIOBIOLOGY AS A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM""; ""RADIOBIOLOGY PROBLEM ALONG THE TEMPORAL DOMAIN: TIME, DOSE, AND FRACTIONATION""; ""The 4 Rs of Fractionation Radiobiology""; ""Empirical Power�Laws""
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""Mechanistic Models and Cell Survival Curves""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Extracranial Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery
Language:
English
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