ABSTRACT
Target Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Anthony Neal
Chapter 30
Patient Data Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Anthony Neal
Chapter 31
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Treatment Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
Vincent Khoo
Chapter 32
Beam Definition-Virtual Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
Vibeke Nordmark Hansen
Chapter 33
Photon-Beam Treatment Planning Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
Peter Childs and Christine Lord
Chapter 34
Electron-Beam Treatment Planning Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
Alan McKenzie and David Thwaites
Chapter 35
Dose Evaluation of Treatment Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
Margaret Bidmead and Jean-Claude Rosenwald
Chapter 36
Biological Evaluation of Treatment Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 731
Alan Nahum and Gerald Kutcher
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773
Treatment planning is the process of determining the most appropriate way to irradiate the
patient. It is a combination of the following five essential steps:
This results in the flow of data illustrated in Figure 39.1.
