Brachytherapy: An International Perspective (medical Radiology)
by Luther W. Brady /
2016 / English / PDF
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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 brachytherapy. The chapters
on the physics of brachytherapy and the technical planning of
internal and surface radiotherapy are designed to enhance the
practitioner’s knowledge base and capabilities in this demanding
specialty field. Disease site-specific chapters cover a wide range
of applications, including ocular tumors, soft tissue sarcomas,
cancers of the head and neck, skin, breast, lung, esophagus, and
prostate, and gynecologic and anorectal malignancies. Each chapter
incorporates the American and European guidelines and the text has
been written from both perspectives by many of the most noted
global experts in the field. A concluding chapter is devoted to
brachytherapy quality assurance.
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 brachytherapy. The chapters
on the physics of brachytherapy and the technical planning of
internal and surface radiotherapy are designed to enhance the
practitioner’s knowledge base and capabilities in this demanding
specialty field. Disease site-specific chapters cover a wide range
of applications, including ocular tumors, soft tissue sarcomas,
cancers of the head and neck, skin, breast, lung, esophagus, and
prostate, and gynecologic and anorectal malignancies. Each chapter
incorporates the American and European guidelines and the text has
been written from both perspectives by many of the most noted
global experts in the field. A concluding chapter is devoted to
brachytherapy quality assurance.