#7 Recent Advances in Brachytherapy Physics

#7 Recent Advances in Brachytherapy Physics

Author:  Douglas R. Shearer, ed.
ISBN:  9780883182857
Published:  1981 | 202 pp | 

Price:   $ 50.00


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Table of Contents

Early Brachytherapy Dosimetry
Bengt E. Bjarngard

Recent Brachytherapy Developments
Lowell A. Anderson and Basil S. Hilaris

Recent Brachytherapy Developments in Europe
Roger J. Berry

The Role of the Standards Laboratory in Brachytherapy
Robert Loevinger

Question and Answer Session

I. NEW INSTRUMENTS, TECHNIQUES, AND APPLICATORS

Discussion of the Characteristics and Results of Measurements with a Portable Well Ionization Chamber for Calibration of Brachytherapy Sources
L W. Berkley, W. F. Hanson, and R. J. Shalek

Interstitial Implant Technique Using lridium-192
Krishnan Suthanthiran

Design of a Shielded Mini-Ovoid Cesium Applicator
K. J. Wetherill

Calibration of Cesium-137 Brachytherapy Sources
David O. Kubiatowicz

Question and Answer Session

II. IRIDIUM-192

192Ir Production Quality Assurance
Sidney O. Stephens

192Ir Calibration Quality Assurance
J. Roo Nibhanupudy

192Ir Hospital Calibration Procedures
Arthur L. Boyer, Philip D. Cobb, Kenneth R. Kase, M.D., Dawson T. S. Chen

The Ratio of the Dose in Water to Exposure in Air for a Point Source of 192Ir: A Review
Glenn P. Glasgow

Question and Answer Session

III. IODINE-125

1-125 SeedR Quality Assurance and Calibration
David A. Cunningham

Activity Assay of 125I Implant Seeds
C. Clifton Ling, Lowell L. Anderson, Peter J. Biggs and Devorah Novack

Question and Answer Session

IV. COMPUTERS AND CT IN BRACHYTHERAPY

Computers and CT in Brachytherapy─Advances In Europe
Roger J. Berry

Computers in Brachytherapy Dose Computation─The Memorial System
Radhe Mohan

Microcomputers in Brachytherapy Physics─The Capintec Treatment Planning System
Dennis D. Leavitt

CT and Brachytherapy Treatment Planning
Alan H. Rowberg, Jerry A. Thomas, and Rosalynd F . Jackson

Question and Answer Session

V. REMOTE AFTERLOADING

Experience with the Cathetron at the Middlesex
M. D. Snelling, J. Yarnold, and R. J. Berry

The Selectron
Eric Van’t Hooft

A Simple Versatile Remote Afterloader
David G. Mahan

Dosimetry with the Henschke Remote Afterloader
J. Roo Nibhanupudy

Radiobiological Dose Rate Considerations with Remote Afterloading
Colin G. Orton

Question and Answer Session