Preface -- 1. The design and procurement process -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Strategic proposal and business case for a new development -- 1.3. Design team -- 1.4. Process, tenders and contracts -- 1.5. Construction -- 1.6. Acceptance and handover -- 1.7. Commissioning -- 1.8. Project evaluation

2. The design of radiotherapy facilities -- 2.1. General -- 2.2. Linear accelerators -- 2.3. Cobalt-60 units -- 2.4. Kilovoltage units -- 2.5. Brachytherapy -- 2.6. Particle therapy

3. Radiation protection requirements -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Quantities and units -- 3.3. System of radiation protection -- 3.4. Regulatory framework in the UK -- 3.5. Basic radiation protection principles in radiotherapy -- 3.6. Controlled areas -- 3.7. Optimisation in the design process -- 3.8. Engineering controls -- 3.9. Prior risk assessment -- 3.10. Additional regulatory requirements

4. Clinical practice, treatment room and control room design -- 4.1. Clinical practice -- 4.2. Treatment room design -- 4.3. Control room design

5. Empirical shielding calculations for treatment rooms with linear accelerators -- 5.1. General principles -- 5.2. Primary barriers -- 5.3. Secondary barriers -- 5.4. Roofs and skyshine -- 5.5. Groundshine -- 5.6. Obliquity factor -- 5.7. X-ray scatter down the maze -- 5.8. Neutron scatter down the maze -- 5.9. Maze doors and lining -- 5.10. Direct doors -- 5.11. Laminated walls and roofs -- 5.12. Spreadsheet approach for primary and secondary shielding

6. Monte Carlo methods -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Available Monte Carlo codes and deciding which one to use -- 6.3. Using the MCNP code -- 6.4. Using the FLUKA code -- 6.5. MCNP, induced neutrons and particle therapy -- 6.6. Calculation of whole-body doses -- 6.7. Summary

7. Shielding materials and construction details -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Materials with unspecified TVLs -- 7.3. Construction details

8. Specialist applications : Gamma Knifeʼ, TomoTherapyʼ and CyberKnifeʼ -- 8.1. The Gamma Knifeʼ -- 8.2. TomoTherapyʼ -- 8.3. CyberKnifeʼ

9. Kilovoltage therapy and electronic brachytherapy -- 9.1. Superficial and orthovoltage therapy -- 9.2. Electronic brachytherapy and intra operative radiotherapy

10. Brachytherapy -- 10.1. Treatment modes -- 10.2. Regulatory considerations -- 10.3. Room design -- 10.4. High dose-rate afterloading -- 10.5. Pulsed dose-rate afterloading -- 10.6. Permanent implants : iodine-125 seeds -- 10.7. Eye plaques

11. Radiation shielding and safety for particle therapy facilities -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Sources of extraneous radiation -- 11.3. Design and build process considerations -- 11.4. Regulatory requirements and design criteria -- 11.5. Workload, use and occupancy factors -- 11.6. Construction materials -- 11.7. Theory of radiation transport : solving the Boltzmann equation -- 11.8. Practical shielding calculations -- 11.9. Monte Carlo calculation methods -- 11.10. Mazes and ducts -- 11.11. Room interlocks and monitoring -- 11.12. Radiation hazards resulting from activation -- 11.13. Measuring and monitoring techniques and instrumentation -- 11.14. Summary

12. Shielding verification and radiation surveys -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. During construction -- 12.3. Post construction radiation survey--detailed shielding integrity testing -- 12.4. Preliminary safety assessment -- 12.5. Critical examination -- 12.6. Radiation surveys -- 12.7. Surveys of kilovoltage equipment -- 12.8. Surveys of brachytherapy facilities -- 12.9. Surveys of CT scanners -- 12.10. Validation of results.