Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Lung Cancer

by Cox; James D.

• ISBN13: 9780849387838
• ISBN10: 0849387833
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-20
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but IGRT (image guided radiation therapy) offers the possibility of more aggressive and enhanced treatments. The only available source on the subject that emphasizes new imaging techniques, and provides step-by-step treatment guidelines for lung cancer, this source helps clinicians locate and target tumors with enhanced speed, improve the accuracy of radiation delivery, and correctly target cancerous masses while avoiding surrounding structures.

Table of Contents

Image Guidance of Screening, Staging, and Combined Modality Management of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	p. 1
Guidelines and Techniques for Image-Guided Radiotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	p. 19
Radiotherapy Guidelines in Small Cell Lung Cancer	p. 39
Image Guidance to Account for Interfractional and Intrafractional Variations: From a Clinical and Physics Perspective	p. 63
Respiratory-Gated Radiation Therapy	p. 83
Image-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	p. 93
The Physics Aspects of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancers	p. 103
Image-Guided Proton Radiotherapy in Lung Cancer	p. 127
Evaluation of Treatment-Related Toxicity and Clinical Outcome in Lung Cancer Treated by Image-Guided Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy	p. 141
Future Development: Deformable Image Registration to Track Tumor Motion and 4-D Radio therapy Planning and Verification	p. 161
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