Special Procedures and Techniques in Radiotherapy

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Slides: Chapter 15. SPECIAL PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES IN RADIOTHERAPY
Text: Chapter 15. SPECIAL PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES IN RADIOTHERAPY

Contents

[edit] INTRODUCTION

[edit] Stereotactic Irradiation

  1. Physical and clinical requirements for radiosurgery
  2. Diseases treated with stereotactic irradiation
  3. Equipment used for stereotactic radiosurgery
  4. Historical development
  5. Radiosurgical techniques
  6. Uncertainty in radiosurgical dose delivery
  7. Dose prescription and dose fractionation
  8. Commissioning of radiosurgical equipment
  9. Quality assurance in radiosurgery
  10. Gamma Knife versus linac-based radiosurgery
  11. Frameless radiosurgery

[edit] Total Body Irradiation

  1. Clinical total body irradiation categories
  2. Diseases treated with total body irradiation
  3. Technical aspects of total body irradiation
  4. Total body irradiation techniques
  5. Dose prescription point
  6. Commissioning of total body irradiation procedure
  7. Test of total body irradiation dosimetry protocol
  8. Quality assurance in total body irradiation

[edit] Total Skin Electron Irradiation

  1. Physical requirements for total skin electron irradiation
  2. Current total skin electron irradiation techniques
  3. Selection of total skin electron irradiation technique
  4. Dose calibration point
  5. Skin dose rate at the dose prescription point
  6. Commissioning of the TSEI procedure
  7. Measurement of stationary and clinical TSEI beams
  8. Quality assurance in total skin electron irradiation

[edit] Intraoperative radiotherapy

  1. Physical and clinical requirements for the IORT
  2. Radiation modalities and techniques in the IORT
  3. Commissioning of an IORT programme
  4. Quality assurance in IORT

[edit] Endocavitary Rectal Irradiation

  1. Clinical requirements for endorectal irradiation
  2. Endorectal treatment technique
  3. Quality assurance in endorectal irradiation

[edit] Conformal Radiotherapy

  1. Basic aspects of conformal radiotherapy
  2. Multileaf collimators
  3. Acceptance testing of multileaf collimators
  4. Commissioning of multileaf collimators
  5. Quality assurance programme for multileaf collimators
  6. Intensity modulated radiotherapy
  7. Commissioning of IMRT systems
  8. Quality assurance for IMRT systems
  9. Dose verification for IMRT treatment plans

[edit] Image Guided Radiotherapy

  1. Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT)
  2. Computed tomography Primatom
  3. Tomotherapy
  4. The BAT System
  5. The ExacTrac ultrasonic and x-ray modules
  6. The CyberKnife

[edit] Adaptive Radiotherapy

[edit] Respiratory Gated Radiotherapy

[edit] PET/CT Scanner and PET/CT Image Fusion

[edit] BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS IN MEDICINE, Total Skin Electron

Therapy: Techniques and Dosimetry, AAPM Task Group 30 Report, AAPM, New York (1987).

  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery, AAPM Task Group 42 Report, AAPM, New York (1995).

GILDENBERG, P.L., TASKER, R.R. (Eds), Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, McGraw-Hill, New York (1998).

  • HARTMANN, G., et al., Quality Assurance Program on Stereotactic Radiosurgery,

Springer, Berlin (1995).

  • KHAN, F.M., The Physics of Radiation Therapy, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins,

Baltimore, MD (2003).

  • McCULLOUGH, E.C., “Intraoperative electron beam radiation therapy (IORT)”,

Advances in Radiation Oncology Physics — Dosimetry, Treatment Planning, and Brachytherapy (PURDY, J., Ed.), American Institute of Physics, New York (1992).

  • PODGORSAK, E.B., PODGORSAK, M.B., “Stereotactic irradiation”, The Modern

Technology in Radiation Oncology: A Compendium for Medical Physicists and Radiation Oncologists (VAN DYK, J., Ed.), Medical Physics Publishing, Madison, WI (1999) 589–640.

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