The Physics of Radiation Therapy
Posted by admin | Posted in Oncology | Posted on 10-08-2010
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Product Description
Dr. Khan’s classic textbook on radiation oncology physics is now in its thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition. It provides the entire radiation therapy team–radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists–with a thorough understanding of the physics and practical clinical applications of advanced radiation therapy technologies, including 3D-CRT, stereotactic radiotherapy, HDR, IMRT, IGRT, and proton beam therapy. These technologies are discussed along with the physical concepts underlying treatment planning, treatment delivery, and dosimetry. This Fourth Edition includes brand-new chapters on image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and proton beam therapy. Other chapters have been revised to incorporate the most recent developments in the field. This edition also features more than 100 full-color illustrations throughout. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank.
The Physics of Radiation Therapy
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As a first year medical physics student, this book seems to be very well written. Khan explains things very clearly and summarizes information from Johns and Cunningham very well. It seems like this would be a very good reference book. The diagrams are also quite illustrative.
Rating: 5 / 5
Worthless for anyone without a degree in Physics. Since it’s being used to teach Radiation Therapists, can someone please come up with a better alternative? The lack of units in equations makes it impossible for a lower level student to learn from it.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is book goes too deeply in one subject but then not in other, Author is all over the place, and many time gives outdated,useless information and then at the end of the chapter, suggestes “by the way no one uses this method anymore”
Rating: 1 / 5
Even though this is supposed to be the gold std for rad onc physics, it’s not a particularly good one for teaching. It’s mildly out of date and the writing style is, well, frustrating to read. Like another reader pointed out, the author makes random references to this and that w/o further explanation. Unfortunately, b/c this text is the std, it’s become a necessity. So try to borrow someone else’s copy for the boards, cause you won’t be using this book on a daily basis, that’s for sure.
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought the new (4th) edition, having already read (and liked) the 3rd. For a physicist, the way Dr. Khan shows the concepts of Radiotherapy is very clear and he goes enough in depth (for every typical Radiation Therapy university course).
The main differences (with respect to the previous edition) are the brand-new graphics (with colour tables and summaries at the end of each chapter), some updates in the new techniques of 3D-CRT and IMRT and new chapters about IGRT and Hadron Therapy.
The first chapters are the same (and some sentences sound quite old-fashioned and outmoded, nowadays); and also the (very) few mistyping errors found in the 3rd edition (sometimes also in the equations/graphs) have not been corrected. Some pictures are not referenced correctly.
But, despite these comments, the book is great: someone described it as the “Bible” of Radiation Therapy and I definitely agree. To Medical Physics students, it gives a thorough introduction to principles and applications of Radiation Therapy.
Rating: 4 / 5