Description:

This superbly organized textbook " Principles and Practices of Clinical Physics & Dosimetry " covers the basic treatment planning concepts which are defined and explained in detail. Following the definition and explanation, the concepts are applied in clinical situations. The detailed step-by-step dose calculation methods and the examples of manual dose distribution planning would especially benefit dosimetrist trainees, radiation therapy students and junior physicists. The comprehensive atlas of dose distribution of every site in the human body would serve as a good reference source for dosimetrists, physicists, radiation oncologists, residents, radiation therapists, and treatment planning system developers. In addition, the dosimetric problems would provide additional practice in problem solving. Furthermore, there are considerable interests in a textbook of dose distribution atlas of every site in the human body. This is such a textbook. This is an invaluable and essential reference for practical overview of standard clinical dosimetry and comprehensive step-by-step/detailed dosimetry set-ups and reviewing all the anatomy sites pertaining to clinical/physics dosimetry dose computation. This textbook should be incorporated in clinical dosimetry field as a teaching guide and complete resource for hands on dosimetry and effective study guide for dosimetrists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and radiation therapists. Also, it is an excellent study guide resource for board preparation exams.

Contents:

Physics & Clinical Principles of Treatment Planning, Quantitative Dosimetry, Inhomogeneity Corrections, Irregular Field Calculation, Missing and Added Tissue Correction, Compensator , Isodose Distribution Plans, Electron Beam Therapy, Thermoluminescence Dosimeters, Cancer of the Skin, Tumors of the Bone , Central Nervous System Tumors, Cancer of the Ear , Tumors of the Eye, Cancer of the Larynx, Cancer of the Maxillary Antrum,  Cancer of Nasopharynx, Cancer of the Nasal Cavity and Ethmoid, Cancer of the Salivary Glands, Cancer of the Tongue, Cancer of the Pituitary Gland, Cancer of the Thyroid , Cancer of the Breast , Cancer of the Esophagus, Hodgkin, Disease, Cancer of the Lung, Cancer of Gall Bladder , Cancer of the Liver , Cancer of the Kidney, Cancer of the Pancreas, Cancer of the Stomach, Cancer of the Small Intestines, Cancer of the Colon , Cancer of the Rectum, Cancer of the Anus, Cancer of the Cervix, Cancer of the Uterus, Cancer of the Vagina, Cancer of the Ovaries , Cancer of the Penis, Cancer of the Prostate, Cancer of the Testis, Cancer of the Bladder, Radiation Reaction, Total Body Irradiation, Hemi-body Irradiation, Brachytherapy, Emergencies in Radiation Therapy, Quality Assurance in Treatment Planning ,Problems & Answers , Dosimetry data.

Written for:

Dosimetrist, Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology residents, Radiation Therapists; oncologists; medical technicians