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Advanced Brachytherapy Physics
07-10 October 2018 | Valencia, Spain
• Brachytherapy is the pioneer of extreme hypofractionation that has currently become
one of the hot topics in radiation oncology.
• Brachytherapy experiences here an ever broader imitation by external beam methods
as is especially demonstrated in the radiation therapy of localized prostate cancer.
• There is an emerging role of advance and dedicated 3D imaging modalities, image
guidance techniques and navigation technologies for pre-planning of the implant, for
the implantation procedure, for the treatment planning and finally for treatment
verification.
• The availability of inverse planning and optimization techniques enforces the demand
for individualized implant design, dose prescription and accurate 3D dose calculation.
• All above enable adaptive (4D) treatment planning and adaptive (4D) treatment delivery
techniques.
• At the same time raises the demand for deep background knowledge and extended
expertise for the involved medical physicists.
• There is a central role assigned for clinical medical physicists and researchers for
development, validation and implementation of such advance methods and techniques.