Proton Therapy: Indications, Techniques and Outcomes

ISBN-13: 9780323733496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Steven J. Frank; X. Ronald Zhu

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SECTION 1:  INTRODUCTION
1. Principles of Radiobiology
2. Principles of Proton Beam Therapy
SECTION 2:  PHYSICS AND TREATMENT PLANNING
3. Clinical Commissioning of Pencil Beam Scanning for Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy
4. Immobilization and Simulation
5. Principles of Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy Treatment Planning
6. Physics Quality Assurance
7. Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy Patient Treatments
SECTION 3:  DISEASE SITES
8. Proton Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer
9. Adult Central Nervous System Tumors
10. Gastrointestinal
11. Proton Therapy for Gynecologic Malignancies
12. Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer
13. Head and Neck
14. Proton Therapy for Hematologic Malignancies
15. Pediatric Considerations for Proton Therapy