Biomedical Physics in Radiotherapy for Cancer
- ISBN-10
- 0643103317
- ISBN-13
- 9780643103313
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02-21
- Publisher
- CSIRO PUBLISHING
- Authors
- Eva Bezak, Loredana Marcu, Barry Allen
Description
The scientific and clinical foundations of Radiation Therapy are cross-disciplinary. This book endeavours to bring together the physics, the radiobiology, the main clinical aspects as well as available clinical evidence behind Radiation Therapy, presenting mutual relationships between these disciplines and their role in the advancements of radiation oncology.
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