TY - BOOK ID - 8507408 TI - Radiotherapy and brachytherapy AU - Caner, Alessandra AU - Lemoigne, Yves AU - NATO Advanced Study Institute on Physics of Modern Radiotherapy & Brachytherapy AU - North Atlantic Treaty Organization. PY - 2009 SN - 9048130956 9048130972 PB - Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Radioisotope brachytherapy. KW - Radiotherapy. KW - Radiotherapy KW - Radioisotope brachytherapy KW - Congresses KW - Brachytherapy KW - Therapeutics KW - Publication Formats KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Publication Characteristics KW - Biophysics KW - Radiology, MRI, Ultrasonography & Medical Physics KW - Biology KW - Medicine KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Prostate KW - Cancer KW - Afterloading radiotherapy KW - Brachyisotope therapy KW - Brachytherapy, Radioisotope KW - Implant radiotherapy KW - Interstitial radiotherapy KW - Medicine. KW - Radiology. KW - Nuclear medicine. KW - Biophysics. KW - Biological physics. KW - Biomedical engineering. KW - Medicine & Public Health. KW - Nuclear Medicine. KW - Biophysics and Biological Physics. KW - Biomedical Engineering. KW - Imaging / Radiology. KW - Clinical engineering KW - Medical engineering KW - Bioengineering KW - Engineering KW - Radiation therapy KW - Electrotherapeutics KW - Hospitals KW - Medical electronics KW - Medical radiology KW - Therapeutics, Physiological KW - Phototherapy KW - Biological physics KW - Medical sciences KW - Physics KW - Atomic medicine KW - Radioisotopes in medicine KW - Radioactive tracers KW - Radioactivity KW - Radiological physics KW - Radiation KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Radiological services KW - Physiological effect KW - Implants, Artificial KW - Radioisotopes KW - Therapeutic use KW - Radiology, Medical. KW - Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics. KW - Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. KW - Clinical radiology KW - Radiology, Medical KW - Radiology (Medicine) KW - Medical physics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8507408 AB - This book reports the majority of lectures given during the NATO Advanced Study Institute ASI-982996, which was held at the European Scientific Institute of Archamps (ESI, Archamps – France) from November 15 to November 27, 2007. The ASI course was structured in two parts: the first was dedicated to what is often called “teletherapy”, i. e. radiotherapy with external beams, while the second focused on internal radiotherapy, also called “brachytherapy” or “curietherapy” in honour of Madame Curie who initiated the technique about a century ago. This ASI took place after the European School of Medical Physics, which devoted a 3 week period to medical imaging, a subject complementary to the topics of this book. Courses devoted to nuclear medicine and digital imaging techniques are collected in two volumes of the NATO Science Series entitled “Physics for Medical Imaging Applications” (ISBN 978-1-4020-5650-5) and “Molecular imaging: computer reconstruction and practice” (ISBN 978-1-4020- 8751-6). Every year in autumn ESI organises the European School of Medical Physics, which covers a large spectrum of topics ranging from Medical Imaging to Radiotherapy, over a period of 5 weeks. Thanks to the Cooperative Science and Technology sub-programme of the NATO Science Division, weeks four and five were replaced this year by the ASI course dedicated to “Physics of Modern Radiotherapy & Brachytherapy”. This allowed the participation of experts and students from 20 different countries, with diverse cultural background and professional experience. ER -