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9781420060782

Image-Guided Radiation Therapy of Prostate Cancer

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    9781420060782

  • ISBN10:

    1420060783

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-05-28
  • Publisher: CRC Press

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Summary

Answering the need that exists for a single reference to address the practical issues of implementing image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) into prostate cancer treatment.Image-guided Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer:A Principles and Practice, will provide clinicians with a solid understanding of this technology and, through in-depth illustrations and step-by-step guidelines, it will offer practical guidance on successfully employing IGRT to improve patient outcomes.A Image-guided Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer:A Principles and Practice. A? offers practical step-by-step guidance on how to employ image-guided radiotherapy in the treatment of prostate cancer A? provides disease stage-specific recommendations regarding dosage, fractionation, target volume delineation, and tissue tolerances A? discusses the latest novel approaches to radiotherapy of prostate cancer, including intensity modulatedradiation therapy (IMRT), hypofractionated radiation therapy, and proton beam radiation therapy. A? illustrates the use of conebeam CT and megavoltage imaging in the radiation therapy of prostate cancer

Table of Contents

Overview and treatment guidelines for image-guided treatment in prostate cancer management
Imaging modalities
Modeling potential benefits from IGRT
Pelvic and prostate anatomy, implications for IGRT
Image-guided treatment planning and localization modalities
Image-guidance: the urologist perspective
IGRT in prostate cancer: focus on fiducials
IGRT in prostate cancer: focus on BAT and ultrasound
IGRT in prostate cancer: focus on adaptive therapy
IGRT in postoperative RT for prostate cancer
The use of image-guidance in prostate brachytherapy
IGRT in prostate cancer: targeting pelvic lymph nodes
Fractionation issues with IGRT for clinically localized prostate cancer
Image-guided proton beam radiotherapy
Future developments: On-line dosimetric verification and cone-beam RT planning and verification
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