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

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.