Brachytherapy An International Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Montemaggi, Paolo (Editor), Trombetta, Mark (Editor), Brady, Luther W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Medical Radiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.

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 brachythe...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• History of Brachytherapy
• Physics: Physics of Brachytherapy
• Low Energy Brachytherapy Physics
• Balloon Brachytherapy Physics
• Ocular
• Head and Neck
• Skin
• Sarcoma
• Breast
• Interstitial
• Intracavitary Balloon
• Permanent Breast Seed implant (PBSI)
• Management of Ipsilateral Breast tumor Recurrence (IBTR)
• Thoracic: Lung and chest Wall
• Esophagus
• Hepatic Brachytherapy
• Gynecologic: Corpus Uteri
• Cervix
• Vulva
• Vagina
• Image Guidance in Gynecologic Brachytherapy
• Prostate: Low Dose Rate Interstitial
• High Dose Rate Interstitial
• Rectum and  Anus
• Brachytherpay Quality Assurance
• Index.