1st Edition

Beam's Eye View Imaging in Radiation Oncology

Edited By Ph.D. Berbeco Copyright 2018
    260 Pages
    by CRC Press

    258 Pages 125 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    This first dedicated overview for beam’s eye view (BEV) covers instrumentation, methods, and clinical use of this exciting technology, which enables real-time anatomical imaging. It highlights how the information collected (e.g., the shape and size of the beam aperture and intensity of the beam) is used in the clinic for treatment verification, adaptive radiotherapy, and in-treatment interventions. The chapters cover detector construction and components, common imaging procedures, and state of the art applications. The reader will also be presented with emerging innovations, including target modifications, real-time tracking, reconstructing delivered dose, and in vivo portal dosimetry.



    Ross I. Berbeco, PhD, is a board-certified medical physicist and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

    Series Preface



    Preface



    Editor



    Contributors





    Part 1 FUNDAMENTALS





    1 History of MV imaging



    Marcel van Herk





    2 Detector construction



    Daniel Morf





    3 Monte Carlo simulation of EPIDs



    Jeffrey V. Siebers and I. Antoniu Popescu





    Part 2 CLINICAL APPLICATIONS





    4 Radiographic imaging



    Philip Vial





    5 Megavoltage cone-beam computed tomography



    Olivier Gayou





    6 Pretreatment EPID-based patient-specific QA



    Peter Greer





    7 Beam’s eye view imaging for patient safety



    Eric Ford





    Part 3 INNOVATIONS





    8 Beam’s eye view imaging with low atomic number linear accelerator targets



    James L. Robar





    9 Real-time tumor tracking



    Joerg Rottmann





    10 Beam’s eye view imaging for in-treatment delivered dose estimation in photon radiotherapy



    John H. Lewis





    11 EPID-based in vivo transit dosimetry



    Ben Mijnheer





    12 Advanced technologies for beam’s eye view imaging



    Josh Star-Lack





    Index

    Biography

    Ross I. Berbeco, PhD, is a board-certified medical physicist and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He earned his PhD in High Energy Experimental Physics at the University of Michigan before transitioning to medical physics. Dr. Berbeco began a beam’s eye view imaging workshop during his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has since continued to research BEV imaging for tumor localization to facilitate applications like delivered dose reconstruction, adaptive radiation therapy and tumor tracking.