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This book discusses the benefits of applying informatics principles to the processes within radiotherapy. It explores how treatment and imaging information is represented, stored, and retrieved as well as how this information relates to other patient data. The book deepens readers' knowledge of current and emerging information technology and inf
List of contents
Introduction. Information and the Radiation Oncology Process. Informatics for Teaching and Research. Imaging Informatics. Informatics for Treatment Planning, Delivery, and Assessment. Outcomes Modeling and Quality Assurance Informatics. Index.
About the author
George Starkschall, PhD, FACMP, FAAPM, is a professor in the Department of Radiation Physics and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Starkschall is a fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the American College of Medical Physics and is the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. He has been board certified in therapeutic radiological physics and radiation oncology physics. He earned a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University.
R. Alfredo Siochi, MS, PhD, MS, is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, where he also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include model-based segmentation and 4D treatment planning, 4D cone beam reconstruction, and radiotherapy safety engineering and process improvement. Dr. Siochi earned a PhD in physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).
Summary
This book discusses the benefits of applying informatics principles to the processes within radiotherapy. It explores how treatment and imaging information is represented, stored, and retrieved as well as how this information relates to other patient data. The book deepens readers’ knowledge of current and emerging information technology and inf
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"With the broad development and implementation of advanced technologies and systems, the book fills a gap in the knowledge domain of informatics in radiation oncology. The book provides a way to advance our field by deepening our knowledge of informatics and improving the efficiency of processes and effectiveness of our treatments. The book is comprehensive in scope with relevant discussions of informatics principles in radiation oncology that are not available in any other books."—Moyed Miften, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, USA
