Modern Brachytherapy Techniques

Prague, Czech Republic (March 26-30, 2006)

Educational programme• Sources used in brachytherapy• Physics and dose calculation• Clinical radiobiology in BT: general principles and practical examples

• Radioprotection and Afterloaders

• Optimisation of stepping source BT

• Eye plaque brachytherapy

• Permanent seed and HDR prostate implants

• Radiobiology of permanent implants

• Place of interstitial brachytherapy in Paediatrics, Breast, Anal Canal,

• Head and Neck, Interstitial Gynaecology

• Place of intracavitary brachytherapy in cervix, endometrium and vaginal cancer

• Place of endoluminal brachytherapy in oesophageal and bronchus carcinoma

• Recommendations for recording and reporting in interstitial, intracavitary and endoluminal brachytherapy

• Practical examples of interstitial, intracavitary, endoluminal BT for clinicians

• Practical exercises for physicists

More: http://www.estroweb.org/ESTRO/upload/EVentsdocs/Aims&TargetsPrague2006