Monte Carlo Techniques in Radiation Therapy: Applications to Dosimetry, Imaging, and Preclinical Radiotherapy
暫譯: 放射治療中的蒙地卡羅技術：劑量測定、影像學與臨床前放射治療的應用

本書的第二版《蒙地卡羅技術在放射治療中的應用：劑量測定、影像學、臨床前放射治療》，由Joao Seco和Frank Verhaegen編輯，經過全面更新，探討了蒙地卡羅方法在模擬各種國內外輻射源特徵方面的應用。

Joao Seco graduated with a PhD from the University of London, at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK. He then went on to become an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, working at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He then returned to Europe to work at the German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ in Heidelberg, heading up a new group dedicated to ion beam research and with the focus on 1) novel imaging technologies to reduce Bragg peak positioning errors in patients and 2) on investigating the mechanism of radiation triggered DNA damage via reactive oxygen species. He is also presently the Chair of Medical Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University and is a member of the EFOMP Scientific Committee, representing the DGMP, German Society for Medical Physics.

Frank Verhaegen is Head of Clinical Physics Research at the MAASTRO Clinic in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He holds a professorship from the University of Maastricht. Formerly, he held an Associate Professorship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He earned his PhD from the University of Ghent in Belgium in 1996. He held research positions at the Royal Marsden Hospital and the National Physical Laboratory (UK) for several years. Dr Verhaegen is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and the Institute of Physics. His group has published about 250 research papers, a significant fraction of them about Monte Carlo modelling. His interests range broadly in imaging and dosimetry for photon, proton and electron therapy, brachytherapy and small animal radiotherapy. He also founded a company that offers Monte Carlo-based treatment planning for preclinical precision radiation research. Dr Verhaegen has been passionate about Monte Carlo simulations since the days of his Masters thesis in the late eighties.

喬奧·塞科（Joao Seco）於英國倫敦的倫敦大學癌症研究所（Institute of Cancer Research, ICR）和皇家馬斯登醫院（Royal Marsden Hospital）獲得博士學位。隨後，他成為哈佛醫學院（Harvard Medical School）放射腫瘤學的助理教授，並在麻薩諸塞州總醫院（Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH）工作。之後，他回到歐洲，在德國海德堡的德國癌症研究中心（German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ）工作，負責一個專注於離子束研究的新團隊，重點研究1）新型成像技術以減少患者的布拉格峰定位誤差，以及2）通過活性氧物種研究輻射引發的DNA損傷機制。他目前也是海德堡大學物理與天文系的醫學物理學系主任，並且是歐洲醫學物理學會（EFOMP）科學委員會的成員，代表德國醫學物理學會（DGMP）。

法蘭克·維爾哈根（Frank Verhaegen）是荷蘭馬斯特里赫特MAASTRO診所的臨床物理研究部門負責人。他擁有馬斯特里赫特大學的教授職位。此前，他曾在加拿大蒙特利爾的麥吉爾大學擔任副教授。他於1996年在比利時根特大學獲得博士學位。維爾哈根博士在皇家馬斯登醫院和英國國家物理實驗室（National Physical Laboratory）擔任研究職位多年。他是物理與醫學工程學會（Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine）和物理學會（Institute of Physics）的會士。他的團隊已發表約250篇研究論文，其中相當一部分涉及蒙特卡羅建模。他的研究興趣廣泛，涵蓋光子、質子和電子治療、近距治療和小動物放射治療的成像和劑量測定。他還創立了一家公司，提供基於蒙特卡羅的治療計劃，用於臨床前精準放射研究。自八十年代末期的碩士論文以來，維爾哈根博士對蒙特卡羅模擬充滿熱情。