Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schlegel studied Physics at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He is the head of the Medical Physics department at the German Cancer Research Center (dkfz) in Heidelberg and Professor for Medical Physics at the University of Heidelberg.

Prof. Thomas Bortfeld studied Physics at the Universities of Hannover and Heidelberg. He received his training in Medical Physics at the DKFZ in Heidelberg. He is now the Director of Physics Research in Radiation Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Anca-Ligia Grosu studied medicine in Cluj (Romania) and received her MD in Radiation Oncology at the Technical University of Munich. She is the Head of the Brain Stereotactical Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Group of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Technical University and the Vice-President of the Neuro-Oncology-Group at the Tumour Center in Munich.

New Technologies in Radio-Oncology: Introduction and Overview.- Basics of 3D Medical Imaging: 3D Reconstruction.- Processing and Segmentation of 3D Images.- 3D Visualization.- Image Registration and Data Fusion for Radiotherapy Planning.- Networking, Data Formats and Archieving.- 3D Imaging for Radiotherapy: Clinical X-Ray Computed Tomography.- 4D Imaging and Treatment Planning.- MRI for Radiotherapy Planning.- Potential of MRS for Radiotherapy Planning.- PET and PET/CT for Radiotherapy Planning.- Patient Positioning in Radiotherapy Using Optical Guided 3D-Ultrasound Techniques.- 3D Treatment Planning for Conformal Radiotherapy: External Therapy: Definition of Target Volumes and Organs at Risk.- Virtual Therapy Simulation.-Dose Calculation Algorithms.- Monte Carlo Dose Calculation for Treatment Planning.-Optimization of Treatment Plans, Inverse Planning.- Biological Models in Treatment Planning.- Brachytherapy Planning: 2D and 3D Planning in Brachytherapy.- New Treatment Techniques: Beam Delivery in 3D Conformal X-Ray Therapy.- Stereotactic Radiotherapy.- X-IMRT.- Control of Breathing Motion: Techniques and Models (Gated Radiotherapy).- Image-Guided/Adaptive Radiotherapy.- Predictive Compensation of Breathing Motion in Lung Cancer Radiosurgery.- Proton Therapy.- Heavy Ion Therapy.- Brachytherapy: Permanent Brachytherapy in Prostate Cancer.- Vascular Brachytherapy.- Partial Breast Brachytherapy After Conservative Surgery for Early Breast Cancer: Techniques and Results.- Verification and QA: 3D QA Systems.- QM in Radiotherapy.- Subject Index.- List of Contributors

- Summarizes the state of the art in the most relevant areas of medical physics and

engineering applied to radiation oncology

- Covers all relevant areas of the subject in detail, including 3D imaging and image

processing, 3D treatment planning, modern treatment techniques, patient

positioning, and aspects of verification and quality assurance

- Conveys information in a readily understandable way that will appeal to

professionals and students with a medical background as well as to newcomers to

radiation oncology from the field of physics