Chapter 26: Brachytherapy Applications

Chapter 4 presents a method for calculating dose from a single brachytherapy source; however, clinically, single sources are rarely used. Rather, sources are most often implanted in arrays. In this section, we will consider 2D planar implants, which illustrate physical principles that apply to many brachytherapy treatments.

26.1

Planar implants

26.2

Prostate brachytherapy

26.3

HDR Brachytherapy