Brachytherapy
Subtitle: applications and techniques
By: editor, Phillip M. Devlin.
Contributors: Devlin, Phillip M.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780781762779; 9780781762779
Subjects: Radioisotope brachytherapy.; Brachytherapy.
Description: This volume is a comprehensive text and practical reference on contemporary brachytherapy. The book provides detailed, site-specific information on applications and techniques of brachytherapy in the head and neck, central nervous system, breast, thorax, gastrointestinal tract, and genitourinary tract, as well as on gynecologic brachytherapy, low dose rate and high dose rate sarcoma brachytherapy, vascular brachytherapy, and pediatric applications.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Radiobiologic concepts for brachytherapy / Alexandra J. Stewart and Bleddyn Jones; title: Technical physics support for brachytherapy / Robert A. Cormack ... [et al.]; title: Head and neck brachytherapy / Peter Han ... [et al.]; title: Central nervous system brachytherapy / Arnab Chakravarti, Thomas F. DeLaney, and Jay S. Loeffler; title: Breast brachytherapy / Joseph R. Kelley ... [et al.]; title: Thoracic brachytherapy / Subhakar Mutyala and David J. Sugarbaker; title: Gastrointestinal brachytherapy / Brian G. Czito ... [et al.]; title: Prostate brachytherapy / Caroline L. Holloway ... [et al.]; title: Gynecologic brachytherapy / Akila N. Viswanathan and Daniel G. Petereit; title: Soft tissue sarcoma brachytherapy / Chandrajit P. Raut and Michele Albert; title: Vascular brachytherapy / Huan Giap and Prahbakar Tripuraneni; title: Role of brachytherapy in pediatrics / Thomas E. Merchant and Matthew J. Krasin; title: Establishing a brachytherapy practice / Gerard Walsh ... [et al.].