Main description:

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 more practical aspects such as therapy planning, indications and the use of the technique for certain tumor types, including liver metastases, rare tumors, cerebral malignancies and prostate tumors.

Written and edited by pioneers in this technique, the chapter's outline results and numerous illustrated case studies from the daily routine of daily clinical practice providing an insightful guidance to this relatively new but growing method.

This is an indispensable guide for oncologists, radiation therapists and radiologists, but also general practitioners and all other specialties, which have an oncological focus.

Contents:

Introduction: Why and When radiotherapy with iBT? When SBRT?Historical development and current indications of Image-guided BrachytherapyRadiotherapeutic Fundamentals of Image-guided HDR BrachytherapyA Physicist's ViewImage-guided brachytherapy: interventional setting, technique, and peri interventional patient managementThe Manual of Image-guided Brachytherapy of inner organs Image-guided Brachytherapy: Follow-up. Imaging and Clinical ManagementImage-guided Brachytherapy in Oligometastasis: Criteria for Patient Selection from an Oncological PerspectiveBrachytherapy of primary liver lesionsAblation of liver metastases by brachytherapyLiver Brachytherapy - Experience from AsiaTolerability of interstitial brachytherapy of the liver: RILD, imaging and laboratory monitoringLung brachytherapy: Experience from GermanyCT-guided interstitial HDR brachytherapy for malignant lung lesions: Experience from University of California Los AngelesBrachytherapy of renal and adrenal tumoursImage-guided HDR brachytherapy of abdominal lymph nodes, pancreatic and peritoneal neoplasmsInterventional image-guided HDR brachytherapy as a salvage treatment: exclusive or in combination with other local therapiesAdverse events in iBT and their clinical managementRadiological interventions in the age of immunotherapy, molecular diagnostics and liquid biopsySummary