Interventional Radiation Therapy

1 Basic Principles.- 1.1 Principles of Combining External Beam and Brachytherapy.- 1.2 Fundamentals in Radiobiology.- 1.3 Fundamentals in Physics.- 1.4 Brachytherapy Techniques.- 1.5 High and Low Dose Rate Remote Afterloading: A Critical Comparison.- 2 Brain Tumors.- 2.1 Basic Principles of Brachycurietherapy of Brain Tumors.- 2.2 Imaging-Stereotaxic Implantation of Radionuclides in Intracranial Tumors (Curietherapy and Brachycurietherapy).- 2.3 Experimental Dose Effects After Permanent and Temporary Interstitial Irradiation of the Brain.- 2.4 Fractionated Afterloading Therapy in the Treatment of Malignant, Inoperable Brain Tumors.- 2.5 External Stereotactic Focal Irradiation.- 2.6 External Stereotactic Focal Irradiation of Arteriovenous Malformations by a Routinely Used Linear Accelerator.- 3 Choroidal Melanoma.- 3.1 Results After Brachytherapy Using 106Ru/106Rh Plaques for Choroidal Melanomas.- 3.2 Choroidal Melanoma: Role of Brachytherapy in Management.- 3.3 Experience with High-Dose ?-Irradiation (106Ru/106Rh) of Choroidal Melanomas.- 4 Head and Neck Tumors.- 4.1 Classification of Oral Cavity and Oropharynx Carcinomas.- 4.2 Interstitial Radiotherapy of Oral Cavity and Oropharynx Carcinomas (Paris Technique).- 4.3 Interstitial Brachytherapy in Head and Neck Tumors.- 4.4 Manual Afterloading in Brachytherapy (Endocurietherapy with 192Ir Wires and Needles).- 4.5 Temporary and Permanent Brachytherapy in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer - The Erlangen Experience.- 4.6 198Au Implantation of Carcinoma of the Mobile Tongue.- 5 Breast Cancer.- 5.1 Brachycurietherapy in Breast Cancer.- 5.2 Interstitial Boost Irradiation: Indications, Technique, Complications.- 5.3 Interstitial Boost Irradiation Technique and Dosage.- 5.4 Iridium-192 Afterloading for Boosting the Tumor Bed.- 6 Anal Canal Cancer.- 6.1 Carcinomas of the Anal Canal: An Introduction.- 6.2 Role of Combined Radiochemotherapy: The Lyon Experience.- 6.3 Combination Therapy of Anal Canal Cancer: A Report on External Irradiation With or Without Chemotherapy Followed by Interstitial Iridium 192.- 6.4 Radiochemotherapy of Anal Canal Cancer With or Without Interstitial Implants.- 6.5 Conservative Treatment of Anal Carcinoma: The Surgeon's View.- 7 Prostatic Cancer.- 7.1 Interstitial Irradiation in Prostatic Cancer: Report of 10-Year Results.- 7.2 Interstitial Radiotherapy: The Freiburg Experience.- 7.3 Cancer of the Prostate: Brachytherapy Techniques.- 7.4 Percutaneous Iodine-125 Implantation Guided by Ultrasound.- 7.5 Transperineal 125I Implantation Guided by Ultrasound: Preliminary Results of 150 Cases.- 8 Gynecological Malignancies.- 8.1 Interventional Radiation Therapy Techniques in Gynecology.- 8.2 Technical Aspects of Bladder Dosimetry in Intracavitary Irradiation of Carcinoma of the Cervix.- 8.3 Intracavitary High Dose Rate Afterloading Therapy with Iridium 192: Basic Physical Measurements, Dosimetry, and Localization.- 8.4 Present Status and Perspectives of High Dose Rate Afterloading in Gynecologic Malignancies.- 8.5 Five-to Seven-Year Results in High Dose Rate Radiation of Cancer of the Cervix.- 8.6 Prospective Clinical Trial Concerning High Dose Rate Afterloading Therapy in Cancer of the Cervix and Endometrium.- 8.7 Comparison Between High Dose Rate Afterloading and Conventional Radium Therapy.- 8.8 High Dose Rate Afterloading Compared with Conventional Brachytherapy.- 8.9 Low and High Dose Rate Afterloading in Gynecological Malignancies.- 9 Interstitial Hyperthermia.- 9.1 Techniques and Clinical Experience of Interstitial Thermoradiotherapy.- 9.2 Interstitial and Intraoperative Hyperthermia.- 9.3 Interstitial Thermoradiotherapy in the Treatment of Malignant Tumors.- 9.4 Experiences With Interstitial Hyperthermia as a Sole Treatment Modality or Combined with Radiotherapy.- List of Contributors.