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Includes bibliographical references.

part I. Introduction. 1. Overview of image-guided radiation therapy / Irina Vergalasova, Ning J. Yue and Meral Reyhan -- 2. History and future of image-guided radiation therapy in abdominal cancer / Gregory P. Penoncello, Daniel G. Robertson, Ronik S. Bhangoo, Yanle Hu, Wei Liu, Yunze Yang, William G. Rule and Carlos E. Vargas

part II. Principles of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancer. 3. Imaging simulation for abdominal cancer image-guided radiation therapy / Emily Hirata and Manju Sharma -- 4. Treatment planning for abdominal cancer / Bingqi Guo and Peng Qi -- 5. Treatment delivery and verification / Seng Boh Lim and Grace Tang -- 6. Quality assurance of image-guided radiation therapy / Bo Liu, Ke Nie and Taoran Cui

part III. Practice of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancer. 7. Linear accelerator image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancers / Yulin Song, Boris Mueller and Maria F. Chan -- 8. Abdominal radiotherapy with tomotherapy / Yidong Yang and Xudong Xue -- 9. CyberKnife� in abdominal stereotactic body radiosurgery / Lei Wang, Nataliya Kovachuk and Erqi Pollom -- 10. Varian Halcyon(Tm) / David Chamberlain, Joy Carter and Yu Kuang -- 11. VenusX(Tm) / Yulin Song -- 12. Imaging-guided proton therapy for gastrointestinal tumors / Yao Hao and Tianyu Zhao -- 13. Application of image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiotherapy / Hui Zhao and Adam Paxton -- 14. Uncertainties of image-guided radiotherapy for abdominal cancer radiotherapy / You Zhang, Jing Wang and Xun Jia

part IV. Advances in image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal cancer. 15. Advances in simulation imaging for abdominal radiotherapy / Chia-ho Hua, Hui Wang and Yu Kuang -- 16. Advances in treatment planning / Wei Zhao and Lei Xing -- 17. Advances in verification and delivery techniques / Ting Chen and Hesheng Wang -- 18. Treatment response assessment and response-guided adaptive treatment / Xiao Wang, Chi Ma and Yin Zhang -- 19. Adaptive radiation therapy for abdominal cancer / Hui Wang, Xiadong Li, Shenglin Ma and Yu Kuang -- 20. Cone-beam computed tomography-guided adaptive radiation therapy for abdominal cancer / Tonghe Wang, Yang Lei, Walter J Curran, Tian Liu and Xiaofeng Yang -- 21. Magnetic resonance-guided online adaptation for abdominal tumors : technical aspects / Ergun E. Ahunbay, Xinfeng Chen, Eric Paulson and X. Allen Li -- 22. Ultrasound guidance for abdominal radiation therapy / Amy S. Yu and Dimitre H. Hristov -- 23. Synthetic computed tomography for abdominal image-guided radiation therapy / Richard L. J Qiu, Yang Lei, Tonghe Wang, Walter J. Curran, Tian Liu and Xiaofeng Yang -- 24. Virtual imaging for abdominal image-guided radiotherapy / You Zhang, Wendy Harris, Jing Wang and Lei Ren -- 25. Y-90 radioembolization for liver cancer / Tianjun Ma and Naichang Yu -- 26. Artificial intelligence in radiation therapy for abdominal cancer / Dan Nguyen and Mu-Han Lin.

Treatment of abdominal cancers is a complex and dynamic area of oncology, and radiation therapy is playing an increasingly prominent role. The purpose of this book is to provide a step-by-step guide to image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) for abdominal cancers. The book not only provides information for radiation oncologists and medical physicists on the evidence that broadly drives our practice, but also discusses practical details that arise in the day-to-day management. Finally, the authors also address the shortcomings of our present-day knowledge and look forward to future directions. This text is divided into four broad categories: an overview of IGRT on abdominal cancers; principles of IGRT for abdominal cancer; practice of IGRT for abdominal cancer; advances in IGRT for abdominal cancers. As such, the book not only covers the fundamental knowledge required to implement the IGRT techniques in abdominal cancer treatment with detailed operational procedures involved, but also provides an overview of emerging techniques for future application. Part of IPEM-IOP Series in Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists.

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Yu Kuang is an associate professor of medical physics, and director of the CAMPEP-accredited professional doctorate in medical physics degree program at UNLV. He is also an American Board of Radiology (ABR)-certified therapeutic medical physicist. He earned his PhD in biomedical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2009 and completed his medical physics postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan in 2010 and at Stanford University in 2012. He is a voting member of the working group of professional doctorate degree for medical physics in American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study section, PAR review panel, Academic-Industrial Partnerships Research for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: ZRG1 SBIB-Q (57) R.

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