Linz, Ute
Ion Beam Therapy
1. From X-Rays to Ion Beams: A Short History of Radiation Therapy
James M. Slater
2. The Place of Ion Beams in Clinical Applications
Paul J. Kim, Helen A. Shih
3. Socio-Economic Aspects of Ion Beam Therapy
Andre Konski
4. Physical and Biological Rationale for Using Ions in Therapy
Ute Linz
5. Early and Late Responses to Ion Irradiation
Reinhard Schulte, Ted Ling
6. The Impact of Radiation Quality on Cure Rate
John Gueulette, Reinhard Gahbauer, Dan T. L. Jones, Jacobus Slabbert, André Wambersie
7. Monte Carlo Methods for Dose Calculations
Katia Parodi
8. Modeling Heavy Ion Radiation Effects
Thilo Elsässer
9. Preclinical Radiobiology and Predictive Assays
Eleanor A. Blakely, Polly Y. Chang
10. Ocular Proton Therapy Centers
Andrzej Kacperek
11. Clinical Indications for Carbon Ion Radiotherapy and Radiation Therapy with Other Heavier Ions
Stephanie E. Combs
12. Skull Base Tumors
Daniela Schulz-Ertner
13. Proton Therapy for Thoracoabdominal Tumors
Hideyuki Sakurai, Toshiyuki Okumura, Shinji Sugahara, Hidetsugu Nakayama, Koichi Tokuuye
14. Carbon Ion Radiotherapy for Peripheral Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Tadashi Kamada, Naoyoshi Yamamoto, Masayuki Baba
15. Ion Beam Therapy for Gynecological Tumors
Tatsuya Ohno, Shingo Kato
16. Is Prostate Cancer a Good Candidate for Ion Beam Therapy?
Carl J. Rossi
17. Rationale for Proton Therapy in Pediatric Malignancies
Shiao Y. Woo
18. Tolerance of Normal Tissues to Ion Beam Therapy
Jean-Louis Habrand, Jean Datchary, Pascal Pommier, Stéphanie Bolle, Loïc Feuvret, Ismael Ghorbel, Remi Dendale
19. Design and Implementation of Clinical Trials of Ion Beam Therapy
James D. Cox
20. Design Criteria for Medical Accelerators
Hartmut Eickhoff, Udo Weinrich, Jose Alonso
21. Shielding and Radiation Protection in Ion Beam Therapy Facilities
Andrew J. Wroe, Steven Rightnar
22. Commercial Ion Beam Therapy Systems
Yves Jongen
23. Advantages and Challenges of Superconducting Accelerators
Detlef Krischel
24. All-in-One: An Attempt to Integrate the Full Potential of Proton Pencil Beam Scanning in a New Gantry System
Eros Pedroni
25. Beam Spreading Devices
Jay Flanz
26. Dosimetry Techniques for Ion Beams
Giacomo Cuttone
27. Control and Safety Systems for Ion Beam Therapy
Hiroshi Akiyama, Kazuo Tomida
28. Considerations for an Effective Quality Assurance Program for Proton Therapy
Michael Gillin, X. Ronald Zhu, Narayan Sahoo
29. Imaging and Tumor Localization for Ion Beam Therapy
Oliver Jäkel
30. Treatment Planning for Ion Beam Therapy
Oliver Jäkel
31. Online Irradiation Control by Means of PET
Fine Fiedler, Daniela Kunath, Marlen Priegnitz, Wolfgang Enghardt
32. Compensation of Target Motion
Christoph Bert, Eike Rietzel
33. Industrial Robots for Patient Support
Andres Sommer
34. Twenty Years of Proton Radiation Therapy at Loma Linda University Medical Center
Jerry D. Slater
35. The Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center
Jay Flanz, Hanne Kooy, Thomas F. DeLaney
36. HIMAC: A New Start for Heavy Ions
Tadashi Kamada, Hirohiko Tsujii
37. A National Action Plan in Japan: From Experimental Studies to Highly Advanced Medical Technology
Koji Noda
38. Operational and Training Issues Related to Facility Start-Up
Nancy P. Mendenhall, Zuofeng Li
39. The Single-Room Ion Beam Facility
Kenneth P. Gall
40. Smaller – Lighter – Cheaper: New Technological Concepts in Proton Therapy
John Cameron, Niek Schreuder
41. New Facilities: Plans and Proposals
Ramona Mayer, Stanislav Vatnitsky
42. Future Directions in Ion Beam Therapy
Daniel Habermehl, Stephanie Combs, Jürgen Debus
Keywords: Physics, Medical and Radiation Physics, Radiotherapy, Nuclear Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Energy, general, Cancer Research
- Author(s)
- Linz, Ute
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
- Page amount
- 35 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783642214141