![]() Principles and Practice of Brachytherapy
ISBN: 978-0-87993-654-9
Hardcover
752 pages
August 1997, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments;.
Contributors;.
Preface;.
I. Basic Principles:.
Principles of Brachytherapy;.
History of Brachytherapy: The Years After the Discovery of Radium and Radioactivity;.
Radiobiology;.
Basic Physics of Brachytherapy;.
Instrumentation and Equipment;.
Calibration of Brachytherapy Sources;.
Quality Assurance in Brachytherapy;.
Brachytherapy Treatment Planning;.
Imaging Applications in Brachytherapy;.
Radiation Protection;.
II. Clinical Body Sites:.
Brachytherapy for Skin Cancer;.
Interstitial Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumours;.
Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Head and Neck;.
Brachytherapy for Ocular Disease;.
Esophageal Brachytherapy;.
Brachytherapy of Lung Cancer;.
Breast;.
Extrahepatic Bile Duct and Liver Cancer;.
Cancer of the Pancreas;.
Endocavitary and Brachytherapy Techniques in the Conservative Mamagement of Anorectal Cancers;.
Brahytherapy for Prostate Cancer;.
Bladder;.
Cancer of the Female Urethra;.
Brachytherapy for Cancer of the Penis;.
Low-Dose-Rate Intracavity Brachytherapy for Carcinoma of the Uterine Cerix;.
High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Cervical Carcinoma;.
Interstitial Implantation of Gynecologic Malignancies;.
Brachytherapy for Endometrial Carcinoma;.
Cancer of the Vagina;.
Soft Tissue Sarcomas;.
Brachytherapy for Pediatric Tumors;.
III. Special Topics:.
Nursing Management of the Brachytherapy Patient;.
Pulsed Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy;.
Interstitial Thermo-Brachytherapy;.
Californium-252 Neutron Brachytherapy;.
Endovascular Brachytherapy;.
Brachytherapy in the New Millennium;.
In Memoriam;.
Index

