Main description:

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.

Contents:

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