Brachytherapy
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Brachytherapy
(Radiotherapy in practice)
Oxford University Press, 2011
2nd ed
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
Brachytherapy remains an important component of radical radiation therapy in the modern management of cancer. Widespread adoption of remote afterloading now enables brachytherapy to be delivered with minimum exposure to staff and other patients. Technical advances in imaging and computing power have improved the precision of implantation and complex dosimetry can now be achieved in routine practice. The advantages of direct placement of the radiation source into the
area to be treated, overcoming the problems of patient and organ movement, together with the dosimetric advantages inherent in brachytherapy, will ensure that modern brachytheraoy continues to provide the optimal means of delivering accurate high does radiation therapy for many patients.
Fully updated for the second edition, this book provides practical guidance on the use of brachytherapy. Each chapter gives the reader a solid background in the physics and dosimetry of the technique, followed by practical information on its use in common disease sites. Whilst low, medium, and high dose rate techniques are covered, emphasis is placed on high dose rate afterloading techniques which are likely to replace most other forms of brachytherapy in the future.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
Radiotherapy remains the major non-surgical treatment modality for the management of malignant disease. It is based on the application of the principles of applied physics, radiobiology, and tumour biology to clinical practice. Each volume in this series takes the reader through the basic principles of the use of ionising radiation and then develops this by individual sites. This series of practical handbooks are aimed at physicians both training and practising in radiotherapy, as well as
medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiographers and senior nurses.
目次
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Isotopes and delivery systems for brachytherapy
- 3. Principles of brachytherapy dosimetry
- 4. Radiation protection issues in brachytherapy
- 5. The role of brachytherapy in head and neck cancer
- 6. Brachytherapy for uterine tumours: cervix and endometrium
- 7. Prostate cancer: permanent low dose rate seed brachytherapy and temporary high dose rate afterloading brachytherapy
- 8. Endolumenal brachytherapy: bronchus and oesophagus
- 9. Perineal implants: anal canal, vagina and vulva
- 10. Breast brachytherapy
- 11. Rectal brachytherapy
- 12. Miscellaneous sites
- 13. Quality assurance
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