Advances in Radiation Therapy

by Mittal, Bharat B.

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Title Statements

Full title :Advances in Radiation Therapy / edited by Bharat B. Mittal, James A. Purdy, K.K. Ang.

Summary

Recent advances in radiation oncology have depended upon and are intertwined with subsequent scientific discoveries and the development of new techniques in the fields of radiation and molecular biology, physics, electrical engineering, surgery, and medical oncology. This volume describes how some of the recent discoveries in the radiological sciences have influenced the way radiation oncology is practised. As there are many advances in this field, the Editors have chosen to concentrate on selected topics in clinical radiotherapy, radiation physics and biology, and technical innovations that have had a major impact on radiation oncology in the past twenty years. It is hoped that the techniques described in this volume will increase tumor control and prolong patient survival and at the same time decrease radiation-induced side effects and complications.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1998.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer US
Place of Publication:Boston, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:1998.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781461557692, 1461557690
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4615-5769-2
oclc:ocn851796066
LC Classification:RC254-282
Dewey Decimal:616.994

1. Three-Dimensional Treatment Planning and Conformal Dose Delivery -- A Physicist's Perspective -- 2. Radiation Therapy Beam Modulation Techniques -- 3. Computer-Controlled Delivery of 3D Conformal Radiation Treatments -- 4. Implementation and Clinical Use of Portal Imaging -- 5. Altered Fractionation: Radiobiological Principles, Clinical Results, and Potential for Dose Escalation -- 6. Pharmacologic Modification of Radiation-Induced Late Normal Tissue Injury -- 7. Role of Gene Therapy in Radiation Oncology -- 8. Potential Applications of Cell Cycle Manipulation to Clinical Response -- 9. Advances in Brachytherapy -- 10. Recent Advances in External Electromagnetic Hyperthermia -- 11. Implementation of Newer Radiotherapeutic Technology in the Management of Prostate Cancer -- 12. Conformal Radiation Therapy -- A Physician's Perspective -- 13. Clinical Applications of Stereotactic Radiosurgery.