1st Edition
Radiation Therapy Dosimetry A Practical Handbook
This comprehensive book covers the everyday use and underlying principles of radiation dosimeters used in radiation oncology clinics. It provides an up-to-date reference spanning the full range of current modalities with emphasis on practical know-how. The main audience is medical physicists, radiation oncology physics residents, and medical physics graduate students. The reader gains the necessary tools for determining which detector is best for a given application. Dosimetry of cutting edge techniques from radiosurgery to MRI-guided systems to small fields and proton therapy are all addressed. Main topics include fundamentals of radiation dosimeters, brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy dosimetry, and dosimetry of imaging modalities. Comprised of 30 chapters authored by leading experts in the medical physics community, the book:
- Covers the basic principles and practical use of radiation dosimeters in radiation oncology clinics across the full range of current modalities.
- Focuses on providing practical guidance for those using these detectors in the clinic.
- Explains which detector is more suitable for a particular application.
- Discusses the state of the art in radiotherapy approaches, from radiosurgery and MR-guided systems to advanced range verification techniques in proton therapy.
- Gives critical comparisons of dosimeters for photon, electron, and proton therapies.
Part I Radiation Dosimeters and Dosimetry Techniques
Chapter 1 ◾ Fundamentals of Radiation Physics and Dosimetry
Blake R. Smith and Larry A. DeWerd
Chapter 2 ◾ Ionization Chamber Instrumentation
Larry A. DeWerd and Blake R. Smith
Chapter 3 ◾ Calorimetry
Larry A. DeWerd and Blake R. Smith
Chapter 4 ◾ Semiconductor Dosimeters
Giordano Biasi, Nicholas Hardcastle and Anatoly B. Rosenfeld
Chapter 5 ◾ Film Dosimetry
Sina Mossahebi , Nazanin Hoshyar, Rao Khan and Arash Darafsheh
Chapter 6 ◾ Thermoluminescence Dosimetry
Tomas Kron and Peta Lonski
Chapter 7 ◾ Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimeters in Clinical Practice
Stephen F. Kry and Jennifer O’Daniel
Chapter 8 ◾ EPID-Based Dosimetry
Brayden Schott, Thomas Dvergsten, Raman Caleb and Baozhou Sun
Chapter 9 ◾ Scintillation Fiber Optic Dosimetry
Arash Darafsheh
Chapter 10 ◾ Cherenkov and Scintillation Imaging Dosimetry
Rachael L. Hachadorian, Irwin I. Tendler and Brian W. Pogue
Chapter 11 ◾ Clinical Considerations and Dosimeters for In Vivo Dosimetry
Douglas Bollinger and Arash Darafsheh
Chapter 12 ◾ Dosimeters and Devices for IMRT QA
Nesrin Dogan, Matthew T. Studenski and Perry B. Johnson
Chapter 13 ◾ Area and Individual Radiation Monitoring
Nisy Elizabeth Ipe
Chapter 14 ◾ Monte Carlo Techniques in Medical Physics
Ruirui Liu, Tianyu Zhao and Milad Baradaran-Ghahfarokhi
Part II Brachytherapy
Chapter 15 ◾ Brachytherapy Dosimetry
Christopher L. Deufel, Wesley S. Culberson, Mark J. Rivard and Firas Mourtada
Part III External Beam Radiation Therapy
Chapter 16 ◾ Photon Beam Dosimetry of Conventional Medical Linear Accelerators
Francisco J. Reynoso
Chapter 17 ◾ Dosimetric Considerations with Flattening Filter-Free Beams
Jessica Lye, Stephen F. Kry and Joerg Lehmann
Chapter 18 ◾ Linac-Based SRS/SBRT Dosimetry
Karen Chin Snyder, Ning Wen and Manju Liu
Chapter 19 ◾ CyberKnife and ZAP-X Dosimetry
Sonja Dieterich, Georg Weidlich and Chris toph Fuerweger
Chapter 20 ◾ Dosimetry in the Presence of Magnetic Fields
Carri Glide-Hurst, Hermann Fuchs, Dietmar Georg and Dongsu Du
Chapter 21 ◾ Helical Tomotherapy Treatment and Dosimetry
Reza Taleei and Sarah Boswell
Chapter 22 ◾ Gamma Knife Dosimetry
Nels C. Knutson
Chapter 23 ◾ Kilovoltage X-Ray Beam Dosimetry
C. M. Charlie Ma
Chapter 24 ◾ Electron Dosimetry
John A. Antolak
Chapter 25 ◾ Proton Therapy Dosimetry
Michele M. Kim and Eric S. Diffenderfer
Chapter 26 ◾ Ion Range and Dose Monitoring with Positron Emission Tomography
Katia Parodi
Chapter 27 ◾ Prompt Gamma Detection for Proton Range Verification
Paulo Magalhaes Martins, Riccardo Dal Bello and Joao Seco
Chapter 28 ◾ Acoustic-Based Proton Range Verification
Kevin C. Jones
Chapter 29 ◾ Proton Radiography and Proton Computed Tomography
Xinyuan Chen and Tianyu Zhao
Part IV □Imaging Modalities
Chapter 30 ◾ Dosimetry of Imaging Modalities in Radiotherapy
George X. Ding
Biography
Arash Darafsheh, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Radiation Oncology, a certified medical physicist by the American Board of Radiology (ABR), and the PI of the Optical Imaging and Dosimetry Lab at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Optical Science and Engineering, and an M.Sc. in Radiation Medicine Engineering. His current research interests include optical methods in medical physics, detector development for radiotherapy, ultra-high dose rate FLASH radiotherapy, photodynamic therapy, and super-resolution microscopy. He has served as a mentor for many graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, and clinical residents. He has published over 90 journal and conference papers, six book chapters, and one patent. He has been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). He is a member of AAPM and senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE-the international society for optics and photonics. He has served as an associate editor for Medical Physics and as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals.
"The rapid rate of developments and innovations in the field of radiotherapy currently in 2021 requires medical physicists to take stock of existing knowledge and link it to current and future directions. [This book] accepts this challenge. . . . [It] is indeed a 'Practical Handbook' for Radiotherapy Dosimetry in the 2020s and a valuable resource for up-to-date teaching of the next generation of radiotherapy physicists."
–Margaret Moore, Head of Radiotherapy Physics at University Hospital Galway, in European Medical Physics News, Autumn 2021 (pg 37)
