Beam's Eye View Imaging in Radiation Oncology

Ross I. Berbeco, PhD, is a board-certified medical physicist and Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He earned his PhD in High Energy Experimental Physics at the University of Michigan before transitioning to medical physics. Dr. Berbeco began a beam’s eye view imaging workshop during his postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has since continued to research BEV imaging for tumor localization to facilitate applications like delivered dose reconstruction, adaptive radiation therapy and tumor tracking.

• Series PrefacePrefaceEditorContributorsPart 1 FUNDAMENTALS1 History of MV imagingMarcel van Herk2 Detector constructionDaniel Morf3 Monte Carlo simulation of EPIDsJeffrey V. Siebers and I. Antoniu PopescuPart 2 CLINICAL APPLICATIONS4 Radiographic imagingPhilip Vial5 Megavoltage cone-beam computed tomographyOlivier Gayou6 Pretreatment EPID-based patient-specific QAPeter Greer7 Beam’s eye view imaging for patient safetyEric FordPart 3 INNOVATIONS8 Beam’s eye view imaging with low atomic number linear accelerator targetsJames L. Robar9 Real-time tumor trackingJoerg Rottmann10 Beam’s eye view imaging for in-treatment delivered dose estimation in photon radiotherapyJohn H. Lewis 11 EPID-based in vivo transit dosimetryBen Mijnheer12 Advanced technologies for beam’s eye view imagingJosh Star-LackIndex