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Advances in Accelerators and Medical Physics
1st Edition - May 25, 2023
Editors: Toshiyuki Shirai, Teiji Nishio, Kiyokazu Sato
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 9 1 - 9
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 1 9 2 - 6
Radiotherapy is now one of the major cancer treatments. The field of accelerator and medical physics is important and growing to support high precision cancer radiotherapy.… Read more
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Radiotherapy is now one of the major cancer treatments. The field of accelerator and medical physics is important and growing to support high precision cancer radiotherapy. Advances in Accelerators and Medical Physics provides in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts in x-ray therapy, electron beam therapy, particle therapy, boron neutron capture therapy, and molecular imaging and therapy. Novel technologies such as FLASH therapy and laser ion accelerator are also introduced. Each section of the book presents the current state of accelerators, irradiation methods and therapy technologies, as well as future trends in advanced research. This book will serve as a key resource for researchers and students to find all information on latest cancer radiotherapy technologies and methods.
- Offers a deep dive into fundamental accelerator and medical physics techniques and technologies used in cancer radiotherapy
- Considers updated status at hospitals and clinical facilities, and future research trends
- Covers advanced research, development and novel technologies
- Chapters written by experts from the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan(PASJ) and the Japan Society of Medical Physics (JSMP)
Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in medical physics, medical dosimetry, radiation technology, radiotherapy technology, and radiology
SECTION A X-ray therapy and electron beam therapy
1. Electron accelerator and beam irradiation system
Mitsuhiro Yoshida and Kazutoshi Yabuta
2. External beam radiation therapy
Mitsuhiro Nakamura
3. Immobilization and patient positioning
Yusuke Tsuruta
4. Respiratory motion management
Dejun Zhou
5. Radiation treatment planning (photon and electron beam therapy)
Takanori Adachi
6. Dosimetric verification
Hideaki Hirashima
7. Adaptive radiotherapy
Hiraku Iramina
SECTION B Particle therapy
8. Proton cyclotron accelerator and line scanning irradiation system
Toshiki Tachikawa
9. Proton synchrotron accelerator and spot scanning irradiation system
Futaro Ebina
10. Carbon-ion synchrotron accelerator and raster scanning irradiation system
Kiyokazu Sato, Atsushi Miyamoto, Daisuke Kameda, and Shigeki Takayama
11. Quantum scalpel
Ken Katagiri, Kota Mizushima, and Saki Amano
12. Irradiation and therapy methods
Kenji Hotta and Hideyuki Mizuno
13. Management of patient position and respiratory motion
Seishin Takao and Shinichiro Mori
14. Treatment planning
Toshiyuki Toshito and Makoto Sakama
15. Dosimetric verification
Toshiyuki Toshito
16. Radiation protection
Shunsuke Yonai
SECTION C Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)
17. Principle and current status
Yoshinori Sakurai
18. Proton linear accelerator and lithium target system
Kenichi Kaneta and Masaru Nakamura
19. Proton linear accelerator and beryllium target system
Takashi Sugimura
20. Proton cyclotron accelerator and beryllium target system
Toshinori Mitsumoto
21. Irradiation method and the immobilization and positioning of patients (head and neck)
Takahiro Kato, Katsumi Hirose, Akihiko Takeuchi, Ryohei Kato, Shinya Komori, Tomoaki Motoyanagi, Mariko Sato, and Yoshihiro Takai
22. Therapy method, irradiation method, and immobilization and positioning of patients (brain)
Naonori Hu
23. Therapy method, irradiation method, and immobilization and positioning (skin)
Satoshi Nakamura
24. Treatment planning
Hiroaki Kumada
25. Dosimetric verification
Hiroki Tanaka
26. Future works
Yoshinori Sakurai
SECTION D Molecular imaging and therapy
27. Electron linear accelerator for medical radionuclide production
Jaewoong Jang
28. Cyclotron accelerators for the production of medical radionuclides
Tetsuo Kawama, Manami Taniguchi, Francisco Guerra Gomez, Takashi Oda, Jun Kato, Satoshi Ueno, Masanori Tachibana, Hiroki Higuchi, and Toru Ishizuka
29. Dosimetry in therapy using radiopharmaceuticals
Tetsuya Sakashita, Naoyuki Ukon, and Tatsuya Higashi
SECTION E Novel technologies
30. FLASH radiotherapy
Satoshi Kodaira and Teruaki Konishi
31. Laser-driven ion accelerator
Sadaoki Kojima and Masayasu Hata
- No. of pages: 384
- Language: English
- Published: May 25, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323991919
- eBook ISBN: 9780323991926
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Toshiyuki Shirai
Dr. Toshiyuki Shirai is the Director of the Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics at the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST). He received his PhD degree from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. After graduation, he worked in the accelerator and beam physics at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. At QST, his research interests are in medical physics and medical accelerators for particle therapy, especially carbon-ion radiotherapy. He has served as a Councilor of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, JapanTN
Teiji Nishio
Dr. Teiji Nishio is Professor and Director of the Medical Physics Laboratory, Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Science from the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Rikkyo University for his research in nuclear astrophysics. He also received his Ph.D. in Medicine from the Department of Biophysics and Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo for his research in medical physics. So far, he has been working on research and development of proton therapy, especially, Beam On-Line PET system, which visualize the proton irradiation area, at the National Cancer Center Japan. He is currently engaged in research and education on X-ray therapy, proton therapy, and heavy particle therapy in the Medical Physics Laboratory at Osaka University. He is also a board member of the Japan Society of Medical Physics (JSMP).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director of the Medical Physics Laboratory, Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.KS
Kiyokazu Sato
Kiyokazu Sato is the Senior Consultant of Keihin Product Operations Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation. He is responsible for improving technologies and the quality of Keihin Product Operations which is the core factory in Toshiba for energy related equipments such as steam and hydro turbines, turbine-generators, heat exchangers, nuclear reactor internals and new energy equipment. Prior to his current role, he was the Senior Manager of Machinery and Equipment Department and in charge of designing and fabricating new energy equipment such as particle accelerators, superconducting magnets, equipment for fusion reactors, and special remote handling systems.
Dr. Sato holds a PhD in Engineering for his work on heavy ion linear accelerators from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Consultant, Keihin Product Operations, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Co., Kanagawa, Japan