Handbook of Image-Guided Brachytherapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mayadev, Jyoti (Editor), Benedict, Stanley H. (Editor), Kamrava, Mitchell (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gynecology.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Urology.; Medicine & Public Health.

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 opt...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Radiobiology and Physics of Image-Guided Brachytherapy
• Radiobiology of Brachytherapy
• General Physics Principles in Brachytherapy
• Treatment Delivery Technology for Brachytherapy
• Image Guidance Systems for Brachytherapy
• Quality Assurance in Brachytherapy
• Part II: Clinical Applications of Image-Guided Brachytherapy
• Anesthesia and Procedural Care for Brachytherapy
• Breast Brachytherapy
• Eye Plaque Brachytherapy
• Head and Neck Brachytherapy
• Gastrointestinal Brachytherapy: Esophageal Cancer
• Gastrointestinal Brachytherapy: Anal and Rectal Cancer
• Image Guided LDR Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer
• High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer
• Gynecologic Cancer and HDR Brachytherapy: Cervical, Endometrial, Vaginal, Vulva
• Skin Brachytherapy
• Sarcoma and HDR Brachytherapy: Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Image Guided BrachyAblation (IGBA) for Liver Metastases and Primary Liver Cancers
• Central Nervous System Brachytherapy
• Lung Brachytherapy.