The Physics of Radiation Therapy

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Dr. Khan's classic textbook on radiation oncology physics is now in its thoroughly revised and updated Fourth Edition. It offers the entire radiation therapy team—radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists—together with a thorough understanding of the physics and practical clinical applications of complex radiation therapy technologies, counting 3D-CRT, stereotactic radiotherapy, HDR, IMRT, IGRT, and proton beam therapy. These technologies are discussed along together with the physical concepts underlying treatment planning, treatment delivery, and dosimetry.

This Fourth Edition consists of brand-new chapters on picture-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) and proton beam therapy. Other chapters have been revised to incorporate the much recent developments in the field. This edition in addition features extra than 100 full-color illustrations throughout.

A companion Website will propose the fully searchable topic and an picture bank.

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Great book for the Medical Physics student 2010-03-11

By A. Mattera (Como, Italy)

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.

Worst text book I have come across 2010-03-04

By - sbg (California)

This book makes studying frustrating. Most concepts are poorly explained, the author dumps formulas out of nowhere, and uses partial explanations... when he dares trying to give some. In early chapters, the author uses materials that are introduced in later chapters, which makes things even more confusing.

This book is good to be "learned by heart" for the board exam and then forget about it. For a fifth edition, I would have expected something of much better quality. Yes, it is the bible of physics for radiation therapy; perhaps because there is nothing else out there.
Please, would anyone produce a text book of better quality ? The task is not so difficult.

Clearly Written 2010-02-07

By Joe

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.

Rather buy Bentel, 2010-02-05

By G. Shah (San Franscisco, CA)

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"

Couldn't survive without it 2009-09-27

By RONALD DEJESUS (Chicago, IL)

This is absolutely my "Resource-Bible" of physics of Radiation Therapy...

Must-have book, for those who want a clear understanding of the physics behind radiaton oncology.

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