Advances in Accelerators and Medical Physics

ISBN : 9780323991919

Author : Toshiyuki Shirai

Publisher : Academic Press

Year : 2023

Language : English

Type : Book

Description : Table of contents 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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