Books in the Medical Physics Monograph, series

Learn what's new in treatment planning, technology, and techniques in brachytherapy from the world's leading researchers and clinicians with the latest book on brachytherapy in modern clinics. This new volume includes chapters on HDR and LDR brachytherapy for the prostate; general planning and model-based dose calculation algorithms; intensity-modulated brachytherapy; and more.

Focuses on understanding the potential sources of dosimetric uncertainties in radiotherapy; evaluating the impact of these uncertainties on the accuracy and conformity of dose delivered to patients; understanding strategies for mitigating these uncertainties; and understanding the impact of these uncertainties on QA/QM.

Provides comprehensive and cohesive instruction in the technology and evaluation of radiographic and fluoroscopic imaging. The tools needed for specifying, inspecting, and evaluating these systems are used as a unifying framework for reviewing the state-of-the-art of radiographic and fluoroscopic systems, the principles of image quality analysis, and the technology and digital receptors.

Radiotherapy physics has had a very long history of performing quality assurance. The goal of this book is to make new techniques accessible to the broader medical physics community. The CD included in this book contains large tables, figures, and many of the text's images in colour.

Compiled from sessions presented at the 2008 AAPM Summer School, held in Houston, the topics include PET and CT basics, diagnostic and clinical alications, PET/CT scanner designs and characteristics, scanner testing, PET ACR accreditation and acceptance testing, PET/CT simulation for therapy alications, shielding calculations and radiation safety, and site planning.

While numerous technical developments are proceeding in the field of radiation therapy, image-guided radiation therapy and the Monte Carlo method have recently attracted much attention. These two topics, covered in this book from sessions presented at the 2006 AAPM Summer School, present significant changes in the influence of technology on the practice of radiation oncology.

Examines the new advances in imaging technology, covering all of the inherently digital imaging modalities such as computed radiography, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine.