基本説明
Practical guidance on successfully employing IGRT to improve patient outcomes.
Full Description
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 of Prostate Cancer provides clinicians with a solid understanding of this technology and, through in-depth illustrations and step-by-step guidelines, offers practical guidance on successfully employing IGRT to improve patient outcomes.
Image-guided Radiation Therapy of Prostate Cancer:
offers practical step-by-step guidance on how to employ IGRT in the treatment of prostate cancer
provides disease stage-specific recommendations regarding dosage, fractionation, target volume delineation, and tissue tolerances
discusses the latest novel approaches to radiotherapy of prostate cancer, including intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), hypofractionated radiation therapy, and proton beam radiation therapy
illustrates the use of conebeam CT and megavoltage imaging in the radiation therapy of prostate cancer
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.
