Full Description
On-treatment verification imaging has developed rapidly in recent years and is now at the heart of image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and all aspects of radiotherapy planning and treatment delivery.
This is the first book dedicated to just this important topic, which is written in an accessible manner for undergraduate and graduate therapeutic radiography (radiation therapist) students and trainee medical physicists and clinicians. The later sections of the book will also help established medical physicists, therapeutic radiographers, and radiation therapists familiarise themselves with developing and cutting-edge techniques in IGRT.
Features:
Clinically focused and internationally applicable; covering a wide range of topics related to on-treatment verification imaging for the study of IGRT
Accompanied by a library of electronic teaching and assessment resources for further learning and understanding
Authored by experts in the field with over 18 years' experience of pioneering the original forms of on-treatment verification imaging in radiotherapy (electronic portal imaging) in clinical practice, as well as substantial experience of teaching the techniques to trainees
Contents
1. The Concepts and Consequences of Set-up Errors. 2. The Foundations of the Equipment used for Radiotherapy Verification. 3. Concepts of On-Treatment Verification. 4. Clinical Protocols and Imaging Training. 5. Concomitant Exposures and Legal Framework. 6. Foundational Principles of Protocols, Tolerances, Action Levels, and Corrective Strategies. 7. Imaging Science, Imaging Equipment (Pre-treatment and On-treatment). 8. Clinical Practice Principles. 9. Quality Systems and Quality Assurance. 10. Alternative Technologies. 11. Incident Reporting. 12. Protocol Development and Training. 13. Commissioning of new on-treatment imaging equipment and techniques; Intergration into the Oncology Management System
