Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

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.