This
book provides the reader with an in-depth knowledge of physics principles and technology
of Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) that
is changing the way radiotherapy is practiced.
The book aims to cover from the historical methods of using radiographic
films for image guidance to the recent state of the art Magnetic Resonance
image guided Radiotherapy (MRgRT) thus providing the reader an historical
perspective to the evolution of IGRT technology. Each
chapter provides the physics principles, the technological development and the
image guidance workflow and the quality assurance procedures as required. The
book is aimed at academics and students of medical physics and radiation
oncology as well as the other disciplines that use radiation treatment such as
neurosurgery.
Key Features:
Details the physics principles of image guidance
Contains a discussion on the technology of image guidance systems
Offers Clinical commissioning details
Quality assurance requirements are included
Author
B Paul Ravindran:
Dr Paul B Ravindran is a retired professor of Radiation
Physics of the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India. He has more
than 35 years of teaching experience in medical physics. He has been teaching
radiation physics to Radiation Oncology residents, students of master’s program
in Medical Physics and Radiotherapy and Imaging technology students at CMC
Vellore. He has served as an expert for several missions of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to various countries in Southeast Asia and the
Pacific region. He also served as a full-time consultant medical physicist at
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for a year during 2019-2020. He
was convenor of the Medical Radiation Technology Training committee (MRTTC) of
Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) from 2005 to 2019. Dr Ravindran
has significant international experience and has worked at the London Regional
Cancer Program, London, ON Canada for two years, and is also a Fellow of the
Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine. Dr Ravindran has more than fifty
publications in peer reviewed journals and has delivered numerous lectures and
presentations at several national and international conferences. In 2020 Dr
Ravindran was awarded the ‘Outstanding Medical Physicist” award by the
Asia-Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP). Dr
Ravindran is currently working as the Chief Medical Physicist at the Christian
Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Dimapur, Nagaland, India
