Imaging is a critical component of the management of patients having radiotherapy. This book covers the basic principles of the main imaging modalities; site specific chapters give best practice for individual tumour sites, and it also contains information on radioprotection and regulatory issues.

Peter Hoskin has extensive clinical experience in the use of modern techniques for radiotherapy delivery. He undertakes both national and international teaching courses in the subject and is a clinical lead for the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) radiotherapy quality assurance programme. An experienced teacher and examiner in clinical oncology, he currently chairs the fellowship Examination Board for the Royal College of Radiologists. Peter Hoskin is the series editor for the Radiotherapy in Practice series.
Thankamma Ajithkumar is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He undertook a research fellowship in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London followed by speciality training in Clinical Oncology in the Eastern Deanery before becoming a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre in 2006. In 2009 he moved to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, subsequently moving to Cambridge in 2014. His research interest is to optimize the combination of radiotherapy with novel agents in paediatric brain tumours and hepato-pancreatico-biliary tumours to improve clinical outcomes. He is Chair of the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) Brain Tumour Radiotherapy group, and the principal investigator for the international Pediatric Normal Tissue Effects in the Clinic (PENTEC) Re-irradiation working group. He is also the radiotherapy lead for the CCLG CNS GCT subgroup and the radiotherapy research lead for the Cancer Research Network: Eastern.
Vicky Goh is the Chair and Head of Department of Cancer Imaging at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London and Honorary Consultant Radiologist at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London. Her research is focused on functional imaging in cancer with CT, MRI and PET/MRI; tumour heterogeneity and AI. She has a special interest in gastrointestinal and genitourinary.

• 1: Peter Hoskin and Vicky Goh: Introduction


• 2: Connie Yip, N. Jane Taylor, Anthony Chambers, and Vicky Goh: Principles of imaging


• 3: Thankamma Ajithkumar, Heok Cheow, and Peter Hoskin: MRI and functional imaging in radiotherapy planning, delivery, and treatment


• 4: Dinos Geropantas and Victoria Ames: Breast


• 5: Pooja Jain, Katy Clarke, and Michael Darby: Lung and thorax


• 6: Peter Hoskin, Heok Cheow, and Thankamma Ajithkumar: Lymphoma


• 7: Kieran Foley, Carys Morgan, and Tom Crosby: Oesophageal tumours


• 8: Nicholas Carroll and Elizabeth C. Smyth: Gastric tumours


• 9: Marika Reinius, Edmund Godfrey, and Bristi Basu: Hepatic and biliary tumours


• 10: Thankamma Ajithkumar and David Bowden: Pancreatic tumours


• 11: Haesun Choi: Gastrointestinal stromal tumours


• 12: Vivek Misra and Rohit Kochhar: Rectal cancer


• 13: Rebecca Muirhead and Vicky Goh: Anal cancer


• 14: Ananya Choudhury and Peter Hoskin: Urological cancers


• 15: Kate Lankester and Lavanya Vitta: Gynaecological cancers


• 16: Gill Barnett and Tilak Das: Head and neck cancers


• 17: Sara C. Erridge, Gerard Thompson, and David Summers: Central nervous system


• 18: Gail Horan, Emma-Louise Gerety, Sarah Prewett, and Morag Brothwell: Soft tissue sarcomas


• 19: Luigi Aloj: Endocrine tumours


• 20: Gulshad Begum, Sarah Prewett, Gail Horan, and Emma-Louise Gerety: Primary Bone Sarcomas


• 21: Mark Gaze, Monique Shahid, Paul Humphries, and Francesca Peters: Paediatrics


• 22: Helen Addley, Katy Hickman, and Thankamma Ajithkumar: Imaging for common complications


• 23: June Dean: Imaging for treatment verifications


• 24: Simon Thomas: Radiation protection issues when imaging patients for radiotherapy