Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: Principles and Practices
Description
Second edition updates knowledge on clinical indications: lung, liver, kidney, vertebra, oligo-metastases & others.
Presents new trial outcomes on radiobiology, physics, QA, advanced instruments (VERO-4DRT, Synctrax, CyberKnife, etc.)
Provides insight into the future of SBRT using artificial intelligence and SBRT with particle therapy.
Additional information
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Author(s):
Nagata | Nagata |
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ISBN:
978-0-443-11800-5 | 978-0-443-11800-5 |
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Publisher:
Springer | Springer |
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Reviewed by:
Dr Ruth McLauchlan, consultant radiotherapy physicist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London | Dr Ruth McLauchlan, consultant radiotherapy physicist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London |
Publisher price: £108.99
This is the second edition of this book and a warran-ted update with the technological advances and expansion in use of delivery of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) worldwide. Although the emphasis is on practice in Japan, each chapter has comprehensive references to the latest literature from around the world and a nice summary at the end. There are some minor typos and slightly odd sentences, possibly from the translation into English, but it doesn’t impair the understanding of the content.
The book is split into five parts. Part I gives a good introduction to, and historical background of, SBRT. Part II covers the basic principles, with the chapter on radiobiology giving a very thorough review of the subject. The chapter on the physics of SBRT goes back to the first principles of interaction of photons with matter and covers material that can be found in most textbooks of radiotherapy physics, but it is useful to have everything in one place. However, the absence of examples of flattening filter-free (FFF) beams is surprising. Indeed, use of FFF is not mentioned explicitly at all until chapter 17 in part IV. Further chapters do cover the latest in immobilisation, verification imaging and motion management, plus considerations for treatment planning and appropriate calculation algorithms and parameters.
Part III comprises chapters on the various indications for the use of SBRT, although from a UK standpoint, cardiac SBRT is a notable omission, with only a brief paragraph in chapter 23 under future perspectives. The most common tumour sites are covered in considerable detail and all include, at the least, information on treatment strategy and clinical outcomes with reference to useful literature.
Part IV covers technological advances of treatment machines including the Japanese-developed Vero4DRT and SyncTraX alongside the more widely known CyberKnife, tomotherapy, and MR-linac solutions; a very useful summary in one place for anyone looking at options to update equipment.
Finally, part V looks at future perspectives and the potential application of AI, including radiomics, FLASH radiotherapy and use of charged particles.
Overall, this is a very comprehensive text on SBRT that will be a useful resource to both new and existing practitioners in the field.
