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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. Ad… 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.
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
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