Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

References for Brachytherapy Commissioning

• Consider AAPM Task Group Reports and Guidance – TG-41 Remote Afterloading Technology (1993) – TG-43 Brachytherapy Dosimetry Formalism (1995) – TG-56 Code of Practice for Brachytherapy (1997)

– TG-59 High Dose Rate Tx Delivery (1998) – AAPM/ESTRO HEBD Report #229 (2012)

• Consider AAPM Summer School texts – 1994 Chapters 28, 30, 31, 32 – 2005 Chapters 6, 7, 11, 22, 32, 48

• Consider Bruce Thomadsen’s 1999 text “Achieving Quality in Brachytherapy”