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Computers have had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on professional activity in almost all areas. This applies to radiological medicine and in particular to radiation therapy. This book compiles the most recent developments and results of the application of computers and computer science as presented at the XIIIth International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy in Heidelberg, Germany. The text of both oral presentations and posters is included. The book is intended for computer sientists, medical physicists, engineers and physicians in the field of radiation therapy and provides a comprehensive survey of the entire field.
E-Book Information
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Year: 2,000
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 604
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Pages In File: 629
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-3-540-67176-3,978-3-642-59758-9
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Doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-59758-9
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Org File Size: 38,578,286
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Extension: pdf
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Tags:
Radiotherapy
Health Informatics
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages N2-xxviii Inverse-planning for IMRT with a robotically-mounted linac: parameterisation of this ultimate (?) IMRT technique....Pages 1-3 Tomotherapy: Optimal coplanar radiotherapy....Pages 4-6 DMLC IMRT Is Sufficient for All Clinical Purposes....Pages 7-9 Complex IMRT increases the potential for dose misadministration, and simple planning and delivery methods can achieve the same results with reduced risk of patient injury....Pages 10-10 Using a dose-volume feasibility search algorithm for radiation treatment planning....Pages 11-13 Dose-volume constrained radiotherapy optimization for a clinical treatment planning system....Pages 14-16 IMRT optimization based on the generalized Equivalent Uniform Dose (EUD)....Pages 17-19 Investigation of ROC analysis for inverse treatment planning evaluation....Pages 20-22 The use of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator and the Dynamically Penalized Likelihood methods in inverse radiation therapy planning....Pages 23-25 A multicriteria optimization approach for inverse radiotherapy planning....Pages 26-28 Computer-Assisted Selection of Importance Factors in Inverse Planning....Pages 29-31 Dose-Based Con formal Field Shaping using Automated Optimization....Pages 32-34 Direct computation of the “step-and-shoot” IMRT plan....Pages 35-36 Beam orientations in IMRT: to optimize or not to optimize?....Pages 37-39 Inverse Treatment Planning for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery....Pages 40-42 Heuristics for conventional planning....Pages 43-45 Hyperion — An integrated IMRT planning tool....Pages 46-48 ORBIT: Optimization of Radiation therapy Beams by Iterative Techniques, a new optimization code....Pages 49-51 The Effect of PTV Size on PTV Dose Homogeneity....Pages 52-53 Integration of the KonRad inverse planning tool into the iSis3D treatment planning system....Pages 54-56 The influence of dose matrix and voxel dimensions for the dose calculation on inverse treatment planning for stereotactic radiosurgery....Pages 57-59 Cases Studies in Tomotherapy Optimization: Breast, Prostate, Mesothelioma and Nasopharyngeal treatments....Pages 60-62 Method of nor