Principles and Practice of Image-Guided Abdominal Radiation Therapy

by Yu Kuang (Editor)

Overview

Treatment of abdominal cancers is a complex and dynamic area of oncology, and radiation therapy is playing an increasingly prominent role. The purpose of this book is to provide a step-by-step guide of image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) for abdominal cancers. The book not only provides information for radiation oncologists and medical physicists on the evidence that broadly drives our practice, but also to discuss practical details that arise in the day-to-day management. Finally, the authors also address the shortcomings of our present-day knowledge and look forward to future directions. This text is divided into four broad categories: an overview of IGRT on abdominal cancers; principles of IGRT for abdominal cancer; practice of IGRT for abdominal cancer; advances in IGRT for abdominal cancers. As such, the book not only covers the fundamental knowledge required to implement the IGRT techniques in abdominal cancer treatment with detailed operational procedures involved, but also provides an overview of emerging techniques for future application.

Key Features:

• Offers digestible information for radiation therapy practice in abdominal cancers
• Provides quick reference for implementing image-guided radiation therapy technique for abdominal cancer treatment
• Places emerging techniques into image-guided radiotherapy context and points out relevance in current practice
• Incorporates evidence from randomized clinical trials whenever possible to validate clinical recommendations.
• Emphasizes clinical uses of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancers, providing pertinent, easy-to-understand information on state-of-the-art treatments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750324687
Publisher:	Institute of Physics Publishing
Publication date:	02/02/2023
Series:	IPEM-IOP Series in Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	34 MB
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About the Author

Yu Kuang is an associate professor of medical physics, and director of the CAMPEP-accredited professional doctorate in medical physics degree program at UNLV. He is also an American Board of Radiology (ABR)-certified therapeutic medical physicist. He earned his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and completed his medical physics postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan in 2010 and at Stanford University in 2012. He is a voting member of the working group of professional doctorate degree for medical physics in American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study section, PAR review panel, Academic-Industrial Partnerships Research for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: ZRG1 SBIB-Q (57) R

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgement Editor biography List of contributors

Part I Introduction

1 Overview of image-guided radiation therapy

2 History and future of image-guided radiation therapy in abdominal cancer

Part II Principles of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancer

3 Imaging simulation for abdominal cancer image-guided radiation therapy

4 Treatment planning for abdominal cancer

5 Treatment delivery and verification

6 Quality assurance of image-guided radiation therapy

Part III Practice of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancer

7 Linear accelerator image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancers

8 Abdominal radiotherapy with tomotherapy

9 CyberKnife® in abdominal stereotactic body radiosurgery

10 Varian Halcyon™

11 VenusX™

12 Imaging-guided proton therapy for gastrointestinal tumors

13 Application of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiotherapy

14 Uncertainties of image-guided radiotherapy for abdominal cancer radiotherapy

Part IV Advances in image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancer

15 Advances in simulation imaging for abdominal radiotherapy

16 Advances in treatment planning

17 Advances in verification and delivery techniques

18 Treatment response assessment and response-guided adaptive treatment

19 Adaptive radiation therapy for abdominal cancer

20 Cone-beam computed tomography–guided adaptive radiation therapy for abdominal cancer

21 Magnetic resonance–guided online adaptation for abdominal tumors: technical aspects

22 Ultrasound guidance for abdominal radiation therapy

23 Synthetic computed tomography for abdominal image-guided radiation therapy

24 Virtual imaging for abdominal image-guided radiotherapy

25 Y-90 radioembolization for liver cancer

26 Artificial intelligence in radiation therapy for abdominal cancer