Brachytherapy Applications and Techniques Phillip M. Devlin
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

In the last section, Novel Strategy and Applications, Ruge et al present a very interesting review with their clinical practices of Stereotactic Brachytherapy for Brain Tumors using Iodine-125 seed. Elaborate a comprehensive review from principle and techniques of Iodine-125 production at nuclear reactor plant to their clinical practive in prostate cancer treatment. Applications within 2 weeks of finishing external radiation. Interventional EUS enables various therapeutic options: local ablation, brachytherapy, placement of fiducial markers for radiotherapy, and direct injection of antitumor agents into cancer. This paper will focus on EUS-guided oncologic cooling owing to the Joule-Thomson effect. Applications and Techniques by Phillip M DevlinPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 edition (October 20, 2006) | ISBN: 0781762774 | Pages: 448 | CHM | 44 MBWritten. The application of an interstitial implantation brachytherapy technique that uses 3D treatment plan system (PLATO BPS 14.2) was evaluated for the treatment of stage T2b NPC patients. They reported that this new probe created an ablation zone with the extent depending on the duration of the RF application and with fewer complications than other RF ablation techniques. In the standard treated patients, EBRT-CT was followed by one or two intracavitary Cesium (low-dose rate) applications within 2 weeks of finishing external radiation to reach a point A dose of at least 85 Gy. France was also where Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive isotope Radium, and where the first clinical applications of Radium to treat cancer occurred. The planned total dose to point A was 85 Gy. In this non-randomized comparison EBRT-CT protocol was the same in both groups of 40 patients. Patients were treated with the conventional 4-field box technique. Things have come a long way in the 100 years since these first experiments: we now have much more "user-friendly" isotopes, imaging techniques to guide treatment with precision, and computer programs to plan the exact location, dosage and length of radiation treatment.