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Advanced Radiotherapy Physics

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Contents 1 Course Title: 2 Course No.: 3 Instructor: 4 Credits: 5 Semester Offered: 6 Required References: 7 Evaluation Scheme: 8 Course Outline 9 List of Topics:

[edit] Course Title:

Advanced Radiotherapy

[edit] Course No.:

RADI 6033

[edit] Instructor:

Niko Papanikolaou, Ph.D. , Carlos Esquivel, Ph.D. & Sotirios Stathakis, Ph.D.

[edit] Credits:

3

[edit] Semester Offered:

Spring

[edit] Required References:

1. The Modern Technology of Radiation Oncology, Jake Van Dyk, Medical Physics Publishing
2. Selected Task Group Reports (distributed during class)
3. Brachytherapy Physics, Second Edition, Authors: Bruce Thomadsen, Mark Rivard and Wayne Butler, eds., ISBN: 1-930524-24-2, Published: 2005 | 982 pp. | Hardcover
4. Shielding Techniques for Radiation Oncology Facilities, Second Edition, Authors: Patton H. McGinley, ISBN: 1-930524-07-2, Published: 2002 | 184 pp.

[edit] Evaluation Scheme:

Three equally weighted exams

[edit] Course Outline

Coverage of advanced radiation therapy special topics: intensity modulated radiation therapy, advanced brachytherapy, and radiation therapy shielding.

[edit] List of Topics:

1. Brachytherapy: Radiobiological and dosimetric rationale
2. Brachytherapy: Sources: construction, characterization, calibration
3. Brachytherapy: Dose calculation methods, implant properties and descriptors
4. Brachytherapy: Imaging in brachytherapy, source localization methods
5. Brachytherapy: Historical implant design and calculation, Patterson / Parker, Paris, Quimby
6. Brachytherapy: Gynecological implants, the Manchester system and ICRU 38
7. Brachytherapy: Prostate implants, history, techniques, planning and evaluation, results
8. Brachytherapy: HDR and PDR, techniques, planning and delivery, results
9. Brachytherapy: Regulatory, safety and quality assurance issues
10. Brachytherapy: The future of brachytherapy, computer design, remote application, imaging, new isotopes
11. Exam 1
12. Shielding: Historical background, the shielding problem, personnel exposure
13. Shielding: Conventional shield design, calculation methods, barrier materials
14. Shielding: Conventional maze design
15. Shielding: Photoneutron production, neutron shielding materials
16. Shielding: Maze and door calculations for high energy accelerators
17. Shielding: Composite shields, patient neutron dose
18. Shielding: Skyshine, room penetrations, ozone production, activation products
19. Shielding: Simulator, HDR and brachytherapy rooms
20. Shielding: Reports and room surveys / shielding evaluation
21. Exam 2
22. Total Skin Electrons
23. Total Body Photons
24. Sterotactic Radiosurgery
25. IMRT and optimization
26. Tomotherapy
27. Radiobiological models and evaluations
28. Hyperthermia
29. Exam 3

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