Main description:

The scientific and clinical foundations of Radiation Therapy are cross-disciplinary. This book endeavours to bring together the physics, the radiobiology, the main clinical aspects as well as available clinical evidence behind Radiation Therapy, presenting mutual relationships between these disciplines and their role in the advancements of radiation oncology.

Contents:

Radiation interaction with matter.- Elements of radiobiology.- Elements of radiotherapy physics.- Tumour characteristics, development and response to radiation.- Fractionation and altered fractionation in radiotherapy.- Treatment planning techniques.- Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- IMRT: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- Brachytherapy: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- SRS/SRT: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- Whole-body irradiation: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- Electron therapy: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- Proton therapy: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- Neutron therapy: radiobiology and physics aspects of treatment.- Predictive assays and treatment delivery verification.