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Handbook of Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology.
Chengyu Shi

Citation: Medical Physics 39, 2315 (2012); doi: 10.1118/1.3697538

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BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
All interested medical physicists are encouraged to have their names added to a list of available reviewers. Please rank your interest
among radiation therapy, x-ray, imaging, nuclear medicine imaging, ultrasound imaging, MR imaging, radiation injury, radiation
protection, and others. Make your interest known to Dimitris Mihailidis, Ph.D., Books Review Editor (dimitris@charlestonradiation.com).
Include your name and e-mail address in the body of the response.
Handbook of Treatment Planning in
Radiation Oncology. G. Videtic and A.
Vassil. demosMEDICAL, NY, 2010.
Paperback, 260 pp. Price: $75.00. ISBN:
9781933864525.
Description
Treatment plan quality is important.
The clinical experience is one of the
major contributions for improving
treatment plan quality. The thirteen-
chapter handbook covers topics from
general physics principles to detailed
cancer type indications, simulation,
target delineation, planning setup,
planning goals, and general prescrip-
tion of each treatment site. The book
has over 236 pages of treatment plan-
ning experience and notes. The illus-
trations are of good quality. The
authors have authority and expertise in
this field.
Purpose
The book is aimed at providing on-
cology residents a focused handbook
for radiation therapy treatment plan-
ning and delivery reference. The
authors meet the goal by designing the
book’s contents according to treatment
site, with step-by-step organization for
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each detailed cancer type, and good
illustrations for the outcomes.
Audience
The authors wrote the book for the
primary audience of oncology resi-
dents. However, the book can also
serve as a good and quick reference
for medical physics residents, dosime-
try students, therapist students, or
trainees. It can also be a carry-on book
for preparing for professional exams
and as a quick reference document for
routine clinical work.
Content/Features
The book briefly introduces general
physics theory and the necessary tools
for patient simulation and treatment.
Most of the efforts are focused on the
whole picture and important steps of
radiation therapy for each treatment
site. Bullet notes can be used as a
checklist to remind the reader to pay
attention to the important items.
Tables and figures are well selected
for treatment goals and outcomes.
Concise summaries about different
treatment techniques are also com-
pared side-by-side. It is easy to catch
the reader’s attention and find out the
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necessary information with the
included colored text and illustrations.
Additional indexes and a table of con-
tents inside each chapter help the read-
ers search their needs.
Assessment/Comparison
I am pleased that there is a book
like this coming out to help multi-
needs trainees. The book is convenient
for residents to carry with them and
review again and again. It is also good
for those who want to review the in-
formation to prepare for their profes-
sional exam. Compared with other
handbooks, the book is unique since it
is concise and fully covers almost all
the necessary aspects. The readers can
spend a day to read it through. How-
ever, they can also use it as a reference
whenever needed.
Reviewed by Chengyu Shi, Ph.D.
Chengyu Shi is the chief medical physicist
at the radiation oncology department of the
St. Vincent’s Medical Center at Bridgeport
Connecticut. His major responsibility is
clinical service and quality control of the
department. His primary research interests
are in Monte Carlo simulation, virtual
patient modeling, IGRT, and SRS.
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