Comprehensive Brachytherapy: Physical and Clinical Aspects (Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy)

Now in its second edition, Comprehensive Brachytherapy: Physical and Clinical Aspect presents a fully updated, detailed, and comprehensive account of the underlying physics and practice of modern brachytherapy, including the design and implementation of new technologies and techniques.

Combining research and application, this foundational text provides insight into the technological and biological basis, as well as quality assurance and advanced methods. It explores clinical protocols and discusses major advances in imaging, robotics, dosimetry, Monte Carlo-based dose calculation, and optimization. Alongside practical guidance for practitioners, this second edition includes brand new chapters on clinical uses, including skin brachytherapy and brachytherapy for head and neck cancers.

Key Features:

• Provides comprehensive coverage of modern brachytherapy physics
• Discusses major technical advances in brachytherapy and provides guidance on quality assurance methods
• Contains new chapters dedicated to specific clinical applications

This easily digestible book is a core text for brachytherapy courses and will be of use and relevance to students studying both medical physics and radiation oncology. Surgical oncology specialists will also find this book of interest.

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.