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Advances in Accelerators and Medical Physics

  • 1st Edition - May 25, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Toshiyuki Shirai, Teiji Nishio, Kiyokazu Sato
  • Language: English

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Description

Radiotherapy is now one of the major cancer treatments. The field of accelerator and medical physics is important and growing to support high precision cancer radiotherapy. Advances in Accelerators and Medical Physics provides in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts in x-ray therapy, electron beam therapy, particle therapy, boron neutron capture therapy, and molecular imaging and therapy. Novel technologies such as FLASH therapy and laser ion accelerator are also introduced. Each section of the book presents the current state of accelerators, irradiation methods and therapy technologies, as well as future trends in advanced research. This book will serve as a key resource for researchers and students to find all information on latest cancer radiotherapy technologies and methods.

Key features

    • Offers a deep dive into fundamental accelerator and medical physics techniques and technologies used in cancer radiotherapy
    • Considers updated status at hospitals and clinical facilities, and future research trends
    • Covers advanced research, development and novel technologies
    • Chapters written by experts from the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan(PASJ) and the Japan Society of Medical Physics (JSMP)

    Readership

    Graduate students, researchers, and professionals in medical physics, medical dosimetry, radiation technology, radiotherapy technology, and radiology

    Table of contents

    SECTION A X-ray therapy and electron beam therapy

    1. Electron accelerator and beam irradiation system

    Mitsuhiro Yoshida and Kazutoshi Yabuta

    2. External beam radiation therapy

    Mitsuhiro Nakamura

    3. Immobilization and patient positioning

    Yusuke Tsuruta

    4. Respiratory motion management

    Dejun Zhou

    5. Radiation treatment planning (photon and electron beam therapy)

    Takanori Adachi

    6. Dosimetric verification

    Hideaki Hirashima

    7. Adaptive radiotherapy

    Hiraku Iramina

    SECTION B Particle therapy

    8. Proton cyclotron accelerator and line scanning irradiation system

    Toshiki Tachikawa

    9. Proton synchrotron accelerator and spot scanning irradiation system

    Futaro Ebina

    10. Carbon-ion synchrotron accelerator and raster scanning irradiation system

    Kiyokazu Sato, Atsushi Miyamoto, Daisuke Kameda, and Shigeki Takayama

    11. Quantum scalpel

    Ken Katagiri, Kota Mizushima, and Saki Amano

    12. Irradiation and therapy methods

    Kenji Hotta and Hideyuki Mizuno

    13. Management of patient position and respiratory motion

    Seishin Takao and Shinichiro Mori

    14. Treatment planning

    Toshiyuki Toshito and Makoto Sakama

    15. Dosimetric verification

    Toshiyuki Toshito

    16. Radiation protection

    Shunsuke Yonai

    SECTION C Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)

    17. Principle and current status

    Yoshinori Sakurai

    18. Proton linear accelerator and lithium target system

    Kenichi Kaneta and Masaru Nakamura

    19. Proton linear accelerator and beryllium target system

    Takashi Sugimura

    20. Proton cyclotron accelerator and beryllium target system

    Toshinori Mitsumoto

    21. Irradiation method and the immobilization and positioning of patients (head and neck)

    Takahiro Kato, Katsumi Hirose, Akihiko Takeuchi, Ryohei Kato, Shinya Komori, Tomoaki Motoyanagi, Mariko Sato, and Yoshihiro Takai

    22. Therapy method, irradiation method, and immobilization and positioning of patients (brain)

    Naonori Hu

    23. Therapy method, irradiation method, and immobilization and positioning (skin)

    Satoshi Nakamura

    24. Treatment planning

    Hiroaki Kumada

    25. Dosimetric verification

    Hiroki Tanaka

    26. Future works

    Yoshinori Sakurai

    SECTION D Molecular imaging and therapy

    27. Electron linear accelerator for medical radionuclide production

    Jaewoong Jang

    28. Cyclotron accelerators for the production of medical radionuclides

    Tetsuo Kawama, Manami Taniguchi, Francisco Guerra Gomez, Takashi Oda, Jun Kato, Satoshi Ueno, Masanori Tachibana, Hiroki Higuchi, and Toru Ishizuka

    29. Dosimetry in therapy using radiopharmaceuticals

    Tetsuya Sakashita, Naoyuki Ukon, and Tatsuya Higashi

    SECTION E Novel technologies

    30. FLASH radiotherapy

    Satoshi Kodaira and Teruaki Konishi

    31. Laser-driven ion accelerator

    Sadaoki Kojima and Masayasu Hata

    Product details

    • Edition: 1
    • Latest edition
    • Published: May 26, 2023
    • Language: English

    About the editors

    TS

    Toshiyuki Shirai

    Dr. Toshiyuki Shirai is the Director of the Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics at the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST). He received his PhD degree from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University. After graduation, he worked in the accelerator and beam physics at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. At QST, his research interests are in medical physics and medical accelerators for particle therapy, especially carbon-ion radiotherapy. He has served as a Councilor of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan.
    Affiliations and expertise
    Director, Department of Accelerator and Medical Physics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan

    TN

    Teiji Nishio

    Dr. Teiji Nishio is Professor and Director of the Medical Physics Laboratory, Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Science from the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Rikkyo University for his research in nuclear astrophysics. He also received his Ph.D. in Medicine from the Department of Biophysics and Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo for his research in medical physics. So far, he has been working on research and development of proton therapy, especially, Beam On-Line PET system, which visualize the proton irradiation area, at the National Cancer Center Japan. He is currently engaged in research and education on X-ray therapy, proton therapy, and heavy particle therapy in the Medical Physics Laboratory at Osaka University. He is also a board member of the Japan Society of Medical Physics (JSMP).
    Affiliations and expertise
    Professor and Director of the Medical Physics Laboratory, Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

    KS

    Kiyokazu Sato

    Kiyokazu Sato is the Senior Consultant of Keihin Product Operations Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation. He is responsible for improving technologies and the quality of Keihin Product Operations which is the core factory in Toshiba for energy related equipments such as steam and hydro turbines, turbine-generators, heat exchangers, nuclear reactor internals and new energy equipment. Prior to his current role, he was the Senior Manager of Machinery and Equipment Department and in charge of designing and fabricating new energy equipment such as particle accelerators, superconducting magnets, equipment for fusion reactors, and special remote handling systems. Dr. Sato holds a PhD in Engineering for his work on heavy ion linear accelerators from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
    Affiliations and expertise
    Senior Consultant, Keihin Product Operations, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Co., Kanagawa, Japan

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