Further reading
Module 1
Khan: The Physics of Radiation Therapy; 3rd edition, 2003;
Chapter 9: Dose distribution and scatter analysis, p. 159ff
9.1: Phantoms
9.2: Depth dose distribution
9.3: Percentage depth dose
Chapter
11: Treatment Planning I: Isodose distributions, p. 199ff
11.1: Isodose chart
11.4: Wedge filters
11.5: Combination of radiation fields
Podgorsak: Radiation Oncology Physics; 2005
Chapter
6: External Photon Beams: Physical Aspects, p. 161ff
Module 2
Khan: The
Physics of Radiation Therapy; 3rd
edition, 2003;
Chapter
12: Treatment planning II: Patient Data, Corrections and Set-up, p.228ff
12.7.
B: Patient positioning - The XYZ method of isocenter set-up
Chapter 13: Treatment planning III: Field shaping, Skin Dose and Field Seperation, p. 279ff
13.2: Field shaping
Podgorsak: Radiation Oncology Physics; 2005
Chapter 7: Clinical treatment planning in external photon beam radiotherapy, p. 219ff
7.1: Introduction
7.2: Volume definition
7.4: Patient data acquisition and simulation
Module 3
Khan: The Physics of Radiation Therapy; 3rd edition, 2003;
Chapter
19: Three-dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy, p.467ff
Chapter 19.2.
F: Treatment-planning process - Plan optimization and evaluation
Podgorsak: Radiation Oncology Physics; 2005
Chapter 7: Clinical treatment planning in external photon
beam radiotherapy, p. 219ff
7.6: Treatment
Plan Evaluation, p. 256ff.
Chapter 14: Basic
Radiobiology, p.485ff
14.6: Cell survival curves
14.7: Dose response curve
14.9: Normal and tumour cells: Therapeutic ratio
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