Boost in radiotherapy: external beam sunset, brachytherapy sunrise

Radiobiological limitations for dose escalation in external radiotherapy are presented. Biological and clinical concept of brachytherapy boost to increase treatment efficacy is discussed, and different methods are compared. Oncentra Prostate 3D conformal real-time ultrasound-guided brachytherapy is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maciejewski, Boguslaw
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Termedia Publishing House 2009
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080388/