Treatment delivery, intensity-modulated radiotherapy, and image-guided radiotherapy

Abstract

Chapter 3 discusses how successful delivery of external beam radiotherapy such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy and image-guided radiotherapy involves a number of complex processes beginning with the decision by the clinical oncologist to use radiotherapy as part of the patient’s cancer management, through the preparation and planning of the patient’s treatment, to the verification of the patient position and radiation dose delivered at the time of treatment.