High Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Treatment Planning Bruce R. Thomadsen General Considerations of High Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Treatments High dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy forms a special method of delivering brachytherapy where the treatment session…
Proton Beam Therapy Hanne M. Kooy Judy A. Adams Introduction Proton beam radiotherapy further advances a central aim of radiation therapy: significant reduction in healthy tissue dose and, as a…
Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Glenn P. Glasgow Brachytherapy still prospers! The prior (2nd edition) chapter focused on historical and basic concepts and developments between 1997 and 2005. This revision, best viewed as…
Cranial Radiosurgery Frank J. Bova Development In the mid-twentieth century, the advent of Cobalt teletherapy units, and subsequently linear accelerators, helped radiation therapy play an increasingly important role in cancer…
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy William G. Rule Sheena Jain Thomas P. Boike Introduction Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) involves the precise delivery of ablative doses of focused radiation utilizing unique…
Image-Guided Radiation Therapy Guang Li Gig S. Mageras Lei Dong Radhe Mohan Introduction Most modern radiation therapy of cancer involves noninvasive targeting of localized disease and conformal avoidance of nontarget…
Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Arthur L. Boyer Gary A. Ezzell Cedric X. Yu Introduction The treatment techniques that are collectively known as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) compose a broad class in…
Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy Karl L. Prado George Starkschall Radhe Mohan Introduction The goal of radiation therapy is to irradiate tumor-bearing tissues while sparing normal structures. Specifically, we would like…
Treatment Planning Algorithms: Proton Therapy Hanne M. Kooy Benjamin M. Clasie Introduction A clinical dose computation algorithm, a “dose algorithm,” must satisfy requirements such as clinical accuracy in the patient,…
Treatment Planning Algorithms: Brachytherapy Kenneth J. Weeks Introduction Brachytherapy involves the treatment of cancer using the photon, electron, and positron emissions from radioisotopes. Brachytherapy was developed using naturally occurring radioisotopes…
