Particle Radiotherapy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer

Particle Therapy in the Third Millennium Current Status and Future Outlook.- Development of Cyclotrons for Proton and Particle Therapy.- Development of C-ion Radiotherapy Technologies in Japan.- Physical rationale for protontherapy and elements to build a clinical center.- Radiation Dosimetry of Proton Beams.- Clinical pencil beam scanning: present and future practices.- Treatment planning for protons – An essay.- Radiation Therapy with Protons and Heavy Ions.- Robustness Quantification and Worst-Case Robust Optimization in Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy.- Modeling of Biological Effect of Charged Particles for C-Ion RT.- SFUD, IMPT and plan robustness.

Arabinda Kumar Rath, Ph.D. Chairman and M.D. Hemalata Hospitals and Research Center Nalco Square, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Narayan Sahoo, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Radiation Physics University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

Precise treatment of cancer with protons, heavy and light ions has attracted significant interest in the last decade Proton therapy is used all over the world and significant positive clinical data is now available through image integration proving its success in management of cancer Heavy ions and carbon have been successfully used for treating specific indications in select centers in Japan and Europe