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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Autor principal: Maciejewski, Boguslaw
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2009
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27799947
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description 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 presented as a solution for boost or sole therapy.
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spelling pubmed-50803882016-10-31 Boost in radiotherapy: external beam sunset, brachytherapy sunrise Maciejewski, Boguslaw J Contemp Brachytherapy Review Article 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 presented as a solution for boost or sole therapy. Termedia Publishing House 2009-03-23 2009-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5080388/ /pubmed/27799947 Text en Copyright: © 2009 Termedia Sp. z o. o. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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title_short Boost in radiotherapy: external beam sunset, brachytherapy sunrise
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