Advances in Particle Therapy A Multidisciplinary Approach

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- CHAPTER 1: From Röntgen Rays to Carbon Ion Therapy: The Evolution of Modern Radiation Oncology -- CHAPTER 2: Radiobiology and Hadron Therapy: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know? -- CHAPTER 3: Challenges Surrounding Relative Biological Effectiveness for Particle Therapy: Where Do We Go from Here? -- CHAPTER 4: Advances in Beam Delivery Techniques and Accelerators in Particle Therapy -- CHAPTER 5: Requirements for Setting Up a Particle Therapy Centre -- CHAPTER 6: Imaging and Particle Therapy: Current Status and Future Perspectives -- CHAPTER 7: Why Particle Therapy Rather than Photon Therapy or How to Integrate the Decision into Multimodal Management -- CHAPTER 8: Role of Multidisciplinary Collaborative Network for Advancing Cancer Therapy -- CHAPTER 9: Long-Term Outcomes and Prognostic Factors in Patients with Indications for Particle Therapy in Sarcomas -- CHAPTER 10: Proton Therapy for Paediatric Patients -- CHAPTER 11: Normal Tissue Complication Probability Reduction in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Patients Using Proton Therapy -- CHAPTER 12: The Model-Based Approach to Select Patients for Proton Therapy and to Validate Its Added Value -- CHAPTER 13: Overview of Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy in Japan -- CHAPTER 14: Particle Therapy Clinical Trials: Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States -- CHAPTER 15: Role of Particle Therapy in Future Radiotherapy Practice -- CHAPTER 16: Health Economics: Cost, Cost- Effectiveness and Budget Impact of Particle Therapy -- CHAPTER 17: Big Data-Based Decision Support Systems for Hadron Therapy -- CHAPTER 18: CERN Collaborations in Hadron Therapy and Future Accelerators.