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Radioisotope brachytherapy. --- Afterloading radiotherapy --- Brachyisotope therapy --- Brachytherapy, Radioisotope --- Implant radiotherapy --- Interstitial radiotherapy --- Implants, Artificial --- Radioisotopes --- Therapeutic use

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This volume is the first truly international text to take the practitioner from the history, the physical basis, and the rationale of brachytherapy through to the techniques, the results, and the management of complications. It is also the first truly comprehensive and complete textbook of brachytherapy. The chapters on the physics of brachytherapy and the technical planning of internal and surface radiotherapy are designed to enhance the practitioner’s knowledge base and capabilities in this demanding specialty field. Disease site-specific chapters cover a wide range of applications, including ocular tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, cancers of the head and neck, skin, breast, lung, esophagus, and prostate, and gynecologic and anorectal malignancies. Each chapter incorporates the American and European guidelines and the text has been written from both perspectives by many of the most noted global experts in the field. A concluding chapter is devoted to brachytherapy quality assurance.

Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Radioisotope brachytherapy. --- Radioisotopes --- Therapeutic use. --- Afterloading radiotherapy --- Brachyisotope therapy --- Brachytherapy, Radioisotope --- Implant radiotherapy --- Interstitial radiotherapy --- Radioisotope therapy --- Implants, Artificial --- Therapeutic use --- Radiotherapy. --- Oncology  . --- Oncology. --- Tumors --- Radiation therapy --- Electrotherapeutics --- Hospitals --- Medical electronics --- Medical radiology --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Phototherapy --- Radiological services

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This handbook provides a clinically relevant, succinct, and comprehensive overview of image-guided brachytherapy. Throughout the last decade, the utility of image guidance in brachytherapy has increased to enhance procedural development, treatment planning, and radiation delivery in an effort to optimize safety and clinical outcomes. Organized into two parts, the book discusses physics and radiobiology principles of brachytherapy as well as clinical applications of image-guided brachytherapy for various disease sites (central nervous system, eye, head and neck, breast, lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecologic, sarcoma, and skin). It also describes the incorporation of imaging techniques such as CT, MRI, and ultrasound into brachytherapy procedures and planning. Featuring procedural and anesthesia care, extensive images, contouring examples, treatment planning techniques, and dosimetry for the comprehensive treatment for each disease site, Handbook of Image-Guided Brachytherapy is a valuable resource for practicing radiation oncologists, physicists, dosimetrists, residents, and medical students. .

Medicine. --- Gynecology. --- Radiotherapy. --- Oncology. --- Urology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Radioisotope brachytherapy. --- Image-guided radiation therapy. --- Cancer --- IGRT (Image-guided radiation therapy) --- Image-guided radiotherapy --- Afterloading radiotherapy --- Brachyisotope therapy --- Brachytherapy, Radioisotope --- Implant radiotherapy --- Interstitial radiotherapy --- Diagnostic imaging --- Radiotherapy --- Implants, Artificial --- Radioisotopes --- Treatment --- Therapeutic use --- Oncology  . --- Medicine --- Genitourinary organs --- Gynaecology --- Generative organs, Female --- Tumors --- Radiation therapy --- Electrotherapeutics --- Hospitals --- Medical electronics --- Medical radiology --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Phototherapy --- Diseases --- Radiological services --- Gynecology .

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Californium-252 is a neutron emitter with a high specific activity, making it useful in a variety of applications, the most spectacular of which is in brachytherapy for cancer patients. Radiation oncology has exhausted nearly every option for treating radioresistant tumors by photon brachytherapy, and therefore new types of radiation need to be studied to improve the curability of cancer. Audience: Californium brachytherapy is used in only a few radiation therapy centers in the world, so the book will be highly instructive for radiation oncologists, medical physicists and radiobiologists. The nuclear techniques used in clinical applications may also interest nuclear physicists and engineers.

Californium --- Cancer --- Radioisotope brachytherapy --- Brachytherapy --- Neoplasms --- Therapeutic use --- Radiotherapy --- therapeutic use --- radiotherapy --- Emploi en thérapeutique --- Radiothérapie --- Maruyama, Yosh, --- Congresses --- Tumors --- Oncology  . --- Biophysics. --- Biological physics. --- Nuclear physics. --- Heavy ions. --- Nuclear energy. --- Oncology. --- Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Nuclear Energy. --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Nuclear power plants --- Ions --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Biological physics --- Biology --- Medical sciences --- Afterloading radiotherapy --- Brachyisotope therapy --- Brachytherapy, Radioisotope --- Implant radiotherapy --- Interstitial radiotherapy --- Implants, Artificial --- Radioisotopes --- Transplutonium elements --- Therapeutic use. --- Emploi en thérapeutique. --- Radiothérapie. --- radiotherapy. --- Radiothérapie.

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Prostate brachytherapy has been the subject of heated debate among surgeons and the proponents of the various brachytherapy methods. This very first interdisciplinary book on the subject provides a comprehensive overview of innovations in low dose rate (LDR), high dose rate (HDR), and pulsed dose rate (PDR) interstitial brachytherapy for the management of local or locally advanced prostate cancer. In addition to detailed chapters on patient selection and the use of imaging in diagnostics, treatment guidance, and implantation control, background chapters are included on related medical physics issues such as treatment planning and quality assurance. The results obtained with the different treatment options and the difficult task of salvage treatment are fully discussed. All chapters have been written by internationally recognized experts in their fields who for more than a decade have formed the teaching staff responsible for the successful GEC-ESTRO/EAU Prostate Brachytherapy Teaching Course.   This book will be invaluable in informing residents and others of the scientific background and potential of modern prostate brachytherapy. It will also prove a useful source of up-to-date information for those who specialize in prostate brachytherapy or intend to start an interstitial brachytherapy service.

Brachytherapy. --- Prostate -- Cancer. --- Radioisotope brachytherapy. --- Radioisotope brachytherapy --- Radiation Dosage --- Therapeutics --- Genital Neoplasms, Male --- Investigative Techniques --- Radiometry --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Urogenital Neoplasms --- Neoplasms by Site --- Neoplasms --- Diseases --- Brachytherapy --- Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation --- Methods --- Prostatic Neoplasms --- Radiotherapy Dosage --- Radiotherapy --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics --- Prostate --- Medicine. --- Radiotherapy. --- Cancer --- Treatment --- Technological innovations. --- Radiation therapy --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Afterloading radiotherapy --- Brachyisotope therapy --- Brachytherapy, Radioisotope --- Implant radiotherapy --- Interstitial radiotherapy --- Oncology. --- Urology. --- Nuclear physics. --- Heavy ions. --- Hadrons. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Electrotherapeutics --- Hospitals --- Medical electronics --- Medical radiology --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Phototherapy --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Radiological services --- Implants, Artificial --- Radioisotopes --- Therapeutic use --- Oncology  . --- Genitourinary organs --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Tumors --- Ions