Reflecting the increased importance of the collaborations
between radiation oncology and informatics professionals,
Informatics in Radiation Oncology 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 your knowledge of
current and emerging information technology and informatics
principles applied to radiation oncology so that all the data
gathered from laboratory results to medical images can be fully
exploited to make treatments more effective and processes more
efficient.
After introducing the basics of informatics and its connection
to radiation oncology, the book examines the process of healthcare
delivery in radiation oncology, the challenges of managing images
in radiotherapy, and the burgeoning field of radiogenomics. It then
presents teaching, clinical trials, and research tools and
describes open access clinical imaging archives in radiotherapy,
techniques for maximizing information from multimodality imaging,
and the roles of images in treatment planning. It also looks at how
informatics can improve treatment planning, the safety and
efficiency of delivery systems, image-guided patient positioning,
and patient assessment. The book concludes with discussions on how
outcomes modeling evaluates the effectiveness of treatments, how
quality control informatics improves the reliability of processes,
and how to perform quality assurance on the informatics tools.
With contributions from a host of top international experts in
radiation oncology, medical physics, and informatics, this book
leads the way in moving the field forward. It encourages you to
find new ways of applying informatics to radiation oncology and
help your patients in their fight against cancer."
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