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Manual on image-guided brachytherapy of inner organs : technique, indications and evidence / Konrad Mohnike, Jens Ricke, Stefanie Corradini, editors.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into this special form of image-guided interventional therapy and its indications. It begins by introducing the fundamental principles of radiotherapy, the most up-to-date guidelines and the interdisciplinary aspects of the technique and then expands to mor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Mohnike, Konrad (Editor), Ricke, Jens (Editor), Corradini, Stefanie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Subjects:
Radioisotope brachytherapy.
Cancer > Radiotherapy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why and When radiotherapy with iBT? When SBRT?
  • Historical development and current indications of Image-guided Brachytherapy
  • Radiotherapeutic Fundamentals of Image-guided HDR Brachytherapy
  • A Physicist's View
  • Image-guided brachytherapy: interventional setting, technique, and peri interventional patient management
  • The Manual of Image-guided Brachytherapy of inner organs Image-guided Brachytherapy: Follow-up. Imaging and Clinical Management
  • Image-guided Brachytherapy in Oligometastasis: Criteria for Patient Selection from an Oncological Perspective
  • Brachytherapy of primary liver lesions
  • Ablation of liver metastases by brachytherapy
  • Liver Brachytherapy-Experience from Asia
  • Tolerability of interstitial brachytherapy of the liver: RILD, imaging and laboratory monitoring
  • Lung brachytherapy: Experience from Germany
  • CT-guided interstitial HDR brachytherapy for malignant lung lesions: Experience from University of California Los Angeles
  • Brachytherapy of renal and adrenal tumours
  • Image-guided HDR brachytherapy of abdominal lymph nodes, pancreatic and peritoneal neoplasms
  • Interventional image-guided HDR brachytherapy as a salvage treatment: exclusive or in combination with other local therapies
  • Adverse events in iBT and their clinical management
  • Radiological interventions in the age of immunotherapy, molecular diagnostics and liquid biopsy
  • Summary.

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