New Insights into External Radiation Therapy
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 362
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Radiotherapy is used widely for malignant tumor treatment. The advancing technology of medical linear accelerators provides the ability to induce energetic particles into the treated tissue, thus damaging the tumor cells and, through that, curing the treated patient. The accuracy of the administered radiation dose plays a vital role in external radiation therapy; therefore, tremendous efforts have been focused on confining radiation to the treated volume while sparing the surrounding organs from exposure. Treatment planning systems for radiotherapy have also progressed significantly during the last few decades. Monte Carlo simulation programs assist in developing new radiation therapy methods and can provide assessments for radiotherapeutic accuracy. A variety of measurement techniques and apparatuses are in progress for the use of advanced radiation therapy purposes.
This Special Issue will be dedicated to new radiation therapy perspectives that include all the in-use types of particle beams, emerging methods, and innovations.
Dr. Itzhak Orion
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Linac
- X-ray
- electron
- proton
- dosimetry
- Monte Carlo
- treatment-planning
- radiotherapy
- accelerator
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