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Principles of Combining External Beam and Brachytherapy

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Interventional Radiation Therapy

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Radiat Oncol))

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External beam therapy and brachytherapy are customarily combined on a physical rather than on a biologic basis. This has been done both as a matter of tradition and because no other system has been unequivocally demonstrated to be superior. The purpose of the present chapter is to evaluate concordances and discordances between various biologic and physical prescription systems.

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  1. Departments of Therapeutic Radiology and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USA

    Roger A. Potish M.D. (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of Therapeutic Radiology — Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics, Harvard Street at East River Road, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Seymour H. Levitt M.D. (Professor and Head)

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  1. Roger A. Potish M.D.
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  1. Strahlentherapeutische Universitätsklinik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Universitätsstr. 27, 8520, Erlangen, Germany

    Rolf Sauer

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Potish, R.A., Levitt, S.H. (1991). Principles of Combining External Beam and Brachytherapy. In: Sauer, R. (eds) Interventional Radiation Therapy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84163-7_1

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