Advances in Particle Therapy: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Table of Contents
 Foreword
 About the Editors
 Contributors
 CHAPTER 1: From Röntgen Rays to Carbon Ion Therapy: The Evolution of Modern Radiation Oncology
 CHAPTER 2: Radiobiology and Hadron Therapy: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
 CHAPTER 3: Challenges Surrounding Relative Biological Effectiveness for Particle Therapy: Where Do We Go from Here?
 CHAPTER 4: Advances in Beam Delivery Techniques and Accelerators in Particle Therapy
 CHAPTER 5: Requirements for Setting Up a Particle Therapy Centre. CHAPTER 6: Imaging and Particle Therapy: Current Status and Future PerspectivesCHAPTER 7: Why Particle Therapy Rather than Photon Therapy or How to Integrate the Decision into Multimodal Management
 CHAPTER 8: Role of Multidisciplinary Collaborative Network for Advancing Cancer Therapy
 CHAPTER 9: Long-Term Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Indications for Particle Therapy in Sarcomas
 CHAPTER 10: Proton Therapy for Paediatric Patients
 CHAPTER 11: Normal Tissue Complication Probability Reduction in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Patients Using Proton Therapy. CHAPTER 12: The Model-Based Approach to Select Patients for Proton Therapy and to Validate Its Added ValueCHAPTER 13: Overview of Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy in Japan
 CHAPTER 14: Particle Therapy Clinical Trials: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States
 CHAPTER 15: Role of Particle Therapy in Future Radiotherapy Practice
 CHAPTER 16: Health Economics: Cost, Cost- Effectiveness and Budget Impact of Particle Therapy
 CHAPTER 17: Big Data-Based Decision Support Systems for Hadron Therapy
 CHAPTER 18: CERN Collaborations in Hadron Therapy and Future Accelerators.