Comprehensive Brachytherapy Physical and Clinical Aspects

Section I: Introduction 
1. Introduction and innovations in brachytherapy
Peter J. Hoskin, Dimos Baltas, Christian Kirisits, and Ali S. Meigooni
2. Standard Technology in Brachytherapy 
Hayeon Kim, Gabriel Paiva Fonseca and Rupak K. Das
3. Radionuclides in Brachytherapy: Current and Potential New Sources
 Facundo Ballester, Ravinder Nath and Dimos Baltas
4. Quality Assurance of Equipment
 Marisol De Brabandere and Firas Mourtada
Section II:  Brachytherapy Dosimetry 
5. Source Calibration 
Ali S. Meigooni, Larry A. DeWerd and Margaret Bidmead
6.  Experimental Dosimetry Methods 
Dimos Baltas, Brigitte Reniers and Ali S. Meigooni
7. Computational Methods for Dosimetric Characterization of Brachytherapy Sources 
Panagiotis Papagiannis, Luc Beaulieu, Gabriel P Fonseca, et al
Section III Brachytherapy Treatment Planning and Imaging 
8. Historical Development of Predictive Dosimetry “Systems”
Ali S. Meigooni, Margaret Bidmead and Jack L. M. Venselaar
9. TG-43 Dose Calculation Formalism: Development, Insights, and Modernization
 Mark J. Rivard, Ali S. Meigooni, Luc Beaulieu et al
10. On the Introduction of Model-based Algorithms Performing Scatter and Non-Water Heterogeneity Corrections into Brachytherapy Treatment Planning
Luc Beaulieu, Åsa Carlsson Tedgren, Freja Alpsten, et al
11. Optimization and Evaluation 
Dimos Baltas, Inger-Karine K. Kolkman-Deurloo and Ilias Sachpazidis
12. Quality Management of Treatment Planning 
Ali S. Meigooni, Cheng B Saw and Zoubir Ouhib
13. Practical use, limitations, and quality control of imaging in Brachytherapy
Frank-André Siebert and Taran Paulsen Hellebust
Section IV: Uncertainties in Clinical Brachytherapy 
14. Uncertainties Associated with Brachytherapy Source Calibrations and Dose Calculations
 Larry A. DeWerd, Mark J. Rivard and Hans-Joachim Selbach
15. Uncertainties associated with clinical aspects of brachytherapy
 Peter J. Hoskin and Christian Kirisits
Section V:  Clinical Brachytherapy 
16. Clinical use of Brachytherapy
 Peter J. Hoskin
17. Radiobiology for Brachytherapy 
David J. Carlson, Zhe J. Chen and Peter J. Hoskin
18.  Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer
 Piotr Wojcieszek
19. Gynaecologic Brachytherapy
 Emma Fields, Primoz Petric, Umesh Mahantshetty et al
20. Brachytherapy for the treatment of breast cancer
Jose Luis Guinot and Jean Michel Hannoun-Levi
21. Skin brachytherapy including keloids and pterygium
 Jose Luis Guinot and Vratislav Strnad
22. Brachytherapy for Head and Neck Cancers and Uveal Melanoma
 Ashwini Budrukkar and Luca Tagliaferri
23.  Oesophagus, liver and anorectal brachytherapy/ Liver Brachytherapy/Rectal and Anal Cancers 
Ángeles Rovirosa, Peter J. Hoskin, Maya Rottler, et al
Section VI: Advance Methods and Technologies 
24. In Vivo Dosimetry in Brachytherapy 
 Joanna E Cygler, Kari Tanderup, Haydee M Linares Rosales, et al
25. Electromagnetic tracking
Christoph Bert, Inger-Karine Kolkman-Deurloo, Luc Beaulieu
26.  Special Brachytherapy Modalities
Christopher S. Melhus and Ali S. Meigooni
27. Advanced Brachytherapy Technologies: Encapsulation, Ultrasound, and Robotics 
Mark J. Rivard, Luc Beaulieu and Marinus A. Moerland
Section VII: Radiation Protection and Quality Management in Brachytherapy 
28. Radiation Protection in Brachytherapy
Panagiotis Papagiannis, Vasiliki Peppa and Ning J. Yue 
29. Quality Management in Brachytherapy
Susan Richardson, Kayla Kielar, Cheng B Saw, et al
30. Quality Audits in Brachytherapy
Cheng B Saw, Susan Richardson, Jessica R.L. Leif, et al
31. Expert Training in Brachytherapy
Alina Sturdza, Mitchell Kamrava, Frank-Andre Siebert, et al

Biography

Professor. Peter J. Hoskin trained in clinical oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital London and has been consultant in clinical oncology at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Northwood UK since 1992. He is also Professor in Clinical Oncology in the University of Manchester and Honorary Professor in Clinical Oncology at University College London.

Professor. Dr. Dimos Baltas is Professor for Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology and Head of Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site DKTK-Freiburg, Germany.

Professor. Ali S. Meigooni is a Professor of Medical Physics and Director of Brachytherapy Section in the Department of Radiation Medicine at University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

Dr. Christian Kirisits is an Associate Professor and leading the Medical Physics brachytherapy program at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Medical University of Vienna/General Hospital of Vienna.