Implementation of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Limited Resource Settings by IAEA

“…Implementation of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Limited Resource Settings (Online)…”
Available online from ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2015

The Transition from 2-D Brachytherapy to 3-D High Dose Rate Brachytherapy by IAEA

“…Transition from 2-D Brachytherapy to 3-D High Dose Rate Brachytherapy (Online)…”
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Brachytherapy types, dosing, and side effects

Table of Contents: “…Yashar -- Innovative use of balloon applicators for gynecological high dose rate brachytherapy / Susan Richardson, Perry W. …”
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Treatment planning in radiation oncology

Table of Contents: “…Physics and biology of treatment planning -- Introduction: process, equipment, and personnel -- Imaging in radiotherapy -- Patient data acquisition -- Patient and organ movement -- Patient positioning and immobilization -- Treatment simulation -- Treatment planning algorithms: model-based photon dose calculations -- Treatment planning algorithms: brachytherapy -- Treatment planning algorithms: electron beams -- Treatment planning algorithms: proton therapy -- Commissioning and quality assurance -- Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy -- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy -- Image-guided radiation therapy -- Cranial radiosurgery -- Stereotactic body radiation therapy -- Low dose-rate brachytherapy -- High-dose-rate brachytherapy treatment planning -- Radiation therapy using high-energy electron beams -- Proton beam therapy -- Fractionation: radiobiological principles and clinical practice -- Tolerance of normal tissue to therapeutic radiation -- Treatment plan evaluation -- Treatment planning for specific cancers -- Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract -- Gynecologic malignancies -- Cancer of the genitourinary tract -- Lymphomas -- Cancers of the head and neck -- Cancers of the skin, including mycosis fungoides -- Breast cancer -- Cancers of the central nervous system -- Pediatric malignancies -- Cancers of the thorax -- Extremity soft-tissue sarcomas.…”
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Management of Prostate Cancer : A Multidisciplinary Approach

Table of Contents: “…Epidemiology of prostate cancer in Europe -- Chemoprevention -- Individual and mass screening -- Anatomo-pathology -- Biology -- Genomics -- Radiologic investigations( multiparametric MRI, whole body MRI) -- Nuclear Medecine: follow-up (Choline PET-CT, Radium 223)and treatment of bone metastases -- Diagnosis, clinical work up, TNM classification Markers -- Active surveillance -- Open Radical Prostatectomy -- The robotic laparoscopic radical prostatectomy -- Brachytherapy (Low dose rate) -- Brachytherapy (High dose rate) -- IMRT, hypofractionated irradiation and stereotactic irradiation -- External irradiation + androgen suppression -- Post-operative irradiation: immediate or early delayed?…”
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Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Animals and Ecosystems Long-Term Study on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Table of Contents: “…The Environmental Pollution Caused by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) Accident -- 1. Estimation of Dose Rate for the Large Japanese Field Mice (Apodemus speciosus) Distributed in the “Difficult-to-Return Zones” in Fukushima Prefecture -- 2. …”
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Targeted Radionuclide Tumor Therapy : Biological Aspects

Table of Contents: “…to Radionuclide Therapy -- Therapeutically Used Targeted Antigens in Radioimmunotherapy -- EGFR-Family Expression and Implications for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy -- Targeting Tumours with Radiolabeled Antibodies -- Antibody Fragments Produced by Recombinant and Proteolytic Methods -- Novel Alternative Scaffolds and Their Potential Use for Tumor Targeted Radionuclide Therapy -- Peptides for Radionuclide Therapy -- Choice of Radionuclides and Radiolabelling Techniques -- High-LET-Emitting Radionuclides for Cancer Therapy -- Targeted High-LET Therapy of Bone Metastases -- The Auger Effect in Molecular Targeting Therapy -- Radiation Induced Cell Deaths -- Radiation Induced DNA-Damage/Repair and Associated Signaling Pathways -- Radiation Induced DNA Damage Checkpoints -- Cancer Stem Cells and Radiation -- Effects of Low Dose-Rate Radiation on Cellular Survival -- Bystander Effects and Radionuclide Therapy -- Enhancing the Efficiency of Targeted Radionuclide Therapy -- Low Dose Hyper-Radiosensitivity: A Historical Perspective -- Clinical Radionuclide Therapy -- Developmental Trends in Targeted Radionuclide Therapy: Biological Aspects.…”
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Radiobiology for the radiologist by Hall, Eric J., Giaccia, Amato J.

Table of Contents: “…Physics and chemistry of radiation absorption -- Molecular mechanisms of DNA and chromosome damage and repair -- Cell survival curves -- Radiosensitivity and cell age in the mitotic cycle -- Fractionated radiation and the dose-rate effect -- Oxygen effect and reoxygenation -- Linear energy transfer and relative biologic effectiveness -- Acute radiation syndrome -- Medical countermeasures to radiation exposure -- Radiation carcinogenesis -- Heritable effects of radiation -- Effects of radiation on the embryo and fetus -- Radiation cataractogenesis -- Radiologic terrorism -- Doses and risks in diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology and cardiology, and nuclear medicine -- Radiation protection -- Molecular techniques in radiobiology -- Cancer biology -- Dose-response relationships for model normal tissues -- Clinical response of normal tissues -- Model tumor systems -- Cell, tissue, and tumor kinetics -- Time, dose, and fractionation in radiotherapy -- Retreatment after radiotherapy: the possibilities and the perils -- Alternative radiation modalities -- The biology and exploitation of tumor hypoxia -- Chemotherapeutic agents from the perspective of the radiation biologist -- Hyperthermia.…”
Available online from ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2018

Spatially fractionated, microbeam and FLASH radiation therapy a physics and multi-disciplinary approach

Table of Contents: “…Physics of moderate dose rate SFRT. 9. GRID-collimator-based and static-field SFRT / Hualin Zhang -- 10. …”
Available online from ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2023

Environmental contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster : dispersion, monitoring, mitigation and lessons learned

Table of Contents: “…1.10.1 Large-Scale Environmental Monitoring in Fukushima1.10.2 Decreasing Tendency of Air Dose Rates; 1.10.3 Change in Radionuclide Deposition Density and Depth Profile; 1.10.4 Prediction of Air Dose Rate Distribution; 1.10.5 Data Provision; References; 2 Estimation of Environmental Releases of Radioactive Materials; 2.1 Release of Radioactive Materials into the Atmosphere; 2.2 Reverse Estimation Method for the Source Term; 2.3 Release Rates of Radionuclides from the FDNPS; 2.3.1 12 March to the Evening of 14 March; 2.3.2 Night of 14 March to the Night of 15 March; 2.3.3 16-31 March…”
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Handbook of Image-Guided Brachytherapy

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Radiobiology and Physics of Image-Guided Brachytherapy -- Radiobiology of Brachytherapy -- General Physics Principles in Brachytherapy -- Treatment Delivery Technology for Brachytherapy -- Image Guidance Systems for Brachytherapy -- Quality Assurance in Brachytherapy -- Part II: Clinical Applications of Image-Guided Brachytherapy -- Anesthesia and Procedural Care for Brachytherapy -- Breast Brachytherapy -- Eye Plaque Brachytherapy -- Head and Neck Brachytherapy -- Gastrointestinal Brachytherapy: Esophageal Cancer -- Gastrointestinal Brachytherapy: Anal and Rectal Cancer -- Image Guided LDR Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer -- High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer -- Gynecologic Cancer and HDR Brachytherapy: Cervical, Endometrial, Vaginal, Vulva -- Skin Brachytherapy -- Sarcoma and HDR Brachytherapy: Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma -- Image Guided BrachyAblation (IGBA) for Liver Metastases and Primary Liver Cancers -- Central Nervous System Brachytherapy -- Lung Brachytherapy.…”
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Advancements in cancer research

Table of Contents: “…Mullamitha, and J.W. Valle -- High-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy in the management of primary and recurrent gynaecologic malignancies : clinical experience and review of the literature / Isabelle Thibault and Eric Vigneault -- An introductory in metabolism of xenobiotics / Tarek H. …”
Available online from ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012

Radiation exposure sources, impacts, and reduction strategies

Table of Contents: “…Đorđević -- Chapter 2 Radiation Exposure and Protection in Conventional Pediatric Radiology of Thorax / Vera Garaj-Vrhovac, Goran Gajski, Đurđica Milković, Mária Ranogajec-Komor, Saveta Miljanić, Natko Beck, Željka Knežević, and Marko Gerić -- Chapter 3 -- Hemopoiesis in Residents of the Techa Riverside Villages after Long-Term Low-Dose Rate Radiation Exposure / Alexander Akleyev, Tatyana Varfolomeyeva, Ludmila Krestinina, and Georgiy Dimov -- Chapter 4 -- The Current State of Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Eastern Ural Radioactive Trace / V. …”
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Decision analytics and optimization in disease prevention and treatment

Table of Contents: “…Pagán -- Biological planning optimization for high-dose-rate brachytherapy and its application to cervical cancer treatment / Eva K. …”
Available online from ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2018

Environmental Radiation Effects on Mammals : A Dynamical Modeling Approach by Smirnova, Olʹga A.

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Radiobiology for the radiologist by Hall, Eric J.

Table of Contents: “…Fractionated Radiation and the Dose-Rate Effect 6. Oxygen Effect and Reoxygenation 7. …”
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Image-guided radiation therapy

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Radiation Monitoring and Dose Estimation of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Table of Contents: “…Fuji to Investigate the Radioactive Contamination Due to TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Accident (Kazuaki YAJIMA) -- 7 Development of a Carborne Survey System, KURAMA (Minoru TANIGAKI) -- 8 Radiation Measurement in East Japan in 2011 After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (Takumi KUBOTA) -- Part 4 Environmental Radioactivity -- 9 Distribution of Plutonium Isotopes in Marine Sediments Off Japan Before and After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident: A Review (Jian ZHENG) -- 10 Time Trend Change of Air Dose Rate on Paved Area in Fukushima City After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident (Shin-ya HOHARA) -- 11 Observation of Radionuclides in Marine Biota off the Coast of Fukushima Prefecture After TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident (Tatsuo AONO) -- Part 5 Transfer Models and/or Parameters -- 12 Evaluating Removal of Radionuclides from Landfill Leachate Using Generally Practiced Wastewater Treatment Processes (Nao ISHIKAWA) -- 13 Studies on Radiocesium Transfer in Agricultural Plants in Fukushima Prefecture (Takashi SAITO) -- Part 6 Source Estimation -- 14 Investigation of Uncertainty in the Release Rates of I 131 and Cs 137 from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Estimated from Environmental Data (Shigekazu HIRAO) -- 15 Source Term Estimation of 131I and 137Cs Discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Atmosphere (Haruyasu NAGAI) -- Part 7 Dose Assessment -- 16 NIRS's Activities for the Reconstruction of Early Internal Exposure in the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident (Osamu KURIHARA) -- 17 Internal Radiation Dose of KURRI Volunteers Working at Evacuation Shelters After TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident (Yuko KINASHI) -- 18 Probabilistic Assessment of Doses to the Public Living in Areas Contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident (Shogo TAKAHARA) -- 19 Reduction of External Exposure for Residents Owing to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident by Weathering and Decontamination (Hiroko YOSHIDA).…”
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Multiple Stressors: A Challenge for the Future

Table of Contents: “…-- Effects of Multipollutant Exposures on Plant Populations -- Methodology of Socio-Ecological Monitoring using Cytogenetic Methods -- Role of Genetic Susceptibility in Environmental Exposure Induced Diseases -- Multiple Stressor Data: Long-Term Effects -- Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability in the Offspring of Irradiated Parents -- Evolution Processes in Populations of Plantain, Growing around the Radiation Sources: Changes in Plant Genotypes Resulting From Bystander Effects And Chromosomal Instability -- Clastogenic Factors, Bystander Effects and Genomic Instability In Vivo -- Post-Radiated and Post-Stressed Volatile Secretions: Secondary Immune and Behavioral Reactions in Groups of Animals -- Multiple Stressors: Mechanisms -- Multidisciplinary Aspects of Regulatory Systems Relevant to Multiple Stressors: Aging, Xenobiotics and Radiation -- Genetic Aspects of Pollutant Accumulation in Plants -- Radiation Risks in the Context of Multiple Stressors in the Environment – Issues for Consideration -- Protection by Chemicals against Radiation-Induced Bystander Effects -- Considerations for Proteomic Biomarkers in Rainbow Trout Ecotoxicology -- Genetic Effects of Combined Action of Some Chemicals and Ionizing Radiation in Animals and Human Cells -- Cytogenetic Biomarkers for Exposure to Multiple Stressors -- Redox Proteomics – A Route to the Identifi cation of Damaged Proteins -- Exposure Assessment to Radionuclides Transfer in Food Chain -- Radiation, Oxidative Stress and Senescence; The Vascular Endothelial Cell as a Common Target -- Sensitivity of Irradiated Animals to Infection -- Multiple Stressors: Applied Aspects -- Features of Somatic Gene Mutagenesis in Different Age Groups of Persons Exposed to Low Dose Radiation -- State of Ecosystems at Long-term Contamination with Transuranium Radionuclides -- Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (TENORM) in Non-Nuclear Industry and Their Impact Into Environment and Occupational Radiation Risk -- Steppe Soils Buffer Capacity and the Multipollution Impact of Industrial Enterprises in Ukraine -- Cancer Risk Assessment in Drinking Water of Izmir, Turkey -- Enhanced Adsorption of Atrazine in Different Soils in the Presence of Fungal Laccase -- Problem of Microelementoze and Technology Allowing its Elimination with the Help of Geothermal Mineralized Sources: New Technology of Microelentoze Elimination -- Ecology-related Microbiological and Biochemical Parameters in Assessing Soils Exposed to Anthropogenic Pollution -- Molecular and Cellular Effects of Chronic Low Dose-Rate Ionizing Radiation Exposure in Mice -- Multiple Stressors – Risk Assessment and Legal/Ethical Aspects -- Modeling the Best Use of Investments for Minimizing Risks of Multiple Stressors on the Environment -- Learning from Chernobyl: Past and Present Responses -- Uncertainties from Multiple Stressors: Challenges in Ecological Risk Assessment -- Nuclear Pollution Exposure and Risk Assessment – The Case of Nuclear Reactors Accidents Involving Radioactive Emission -- Multiple Stressors and the Legal Challenge.…”
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Equidosimetry — Ecological Standardization and Equidosimetry for Radioecology and Environmental Ecology : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Ecological Standardi...

Table of Contents: “…Approaches to Ecological Standardization -- Problems of Ecological Standardization and Dosimetry of Action of Different Factors on Biota of Ecosystems -- The Principal Approaches to Standardization of Technogenic Contamination of Environment -- Estimation of Parameters of Radiocapacity of Biota in Ecosystems; Criteria of Their Well-Being -- Approaches to Equidosimetry in Ecology -- Equidosimetry: A Reflexion on Risk Assessment -- An Equi-Dosimetric Approach to the Comparison of Radiation and Chemical Effects on Natural Populations of Aquatic Organisms -- Determination of Heterogeneity Biota as a Perspecve Parameter of Ecological Standardization -- Phytoviruses as Indicators of Environment -- Protein and Radioactivity Levels of Patella Coerulea Linnaeus Around Dardanelles -- Equidosimetric Comparison of Efficiency of Effects of Gamma-Irradiation and Chemical Toxic Agents (Copper and Phenol) on the Red Algae of the Black Sea -- Macrophytes as Bioindicators of Radionuclide Contamination in Ecosystems of Different Aquatic Bodies in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone -- Effects of Radioactive and Chemical Pollution on Plant Virus Frequency Distribution -- Species Diversity as a Factor of Radiostability of Algal Cenosis -- Radioecology and Ecotoxicology in General Ecology -- Modern Problems of Ecotoxicology -- Ecosystem GIS-Modelling in Ecotoxicology -- Mapping Transfer Parameters of Radionuclides in Terrestrial Environments -- Radioecological Factors of the Geological Environment within Ukrainian Territory -- Behaviour of the Radionuclides in Peat Soils -- Evaluation of the Effect of Dnipro River Reservoirs on Coastal Landscapes -- Radiation Effects on the Populations of Soil Invertebrates in Belarus -- Problems of Estimation of Risks from Different Factors -- Generalized Ecosystem Indices: Ecological Scaling and Ecological Risk -- Ecological Risk Assessmenty as a Method for Integrating Risks from Multiple Stressors at Hazardous Waste Sites -- Comparing Risks from Exposure to Radionuclides and other Carcinogens at Arctic Coal Mines -- Risk Due to Joint Chemical and Radiation Contamination of Food -- Problems of Synergism of Different Pollutants -- Synergetic Effects of Different Pollutants and Equidosimetry -- The Behaviour of Radionuclides and Chemical Contaminants in Terrestrial and Water Ecosystems of Urals Region -- Synergism of Low Dose Chronic Radiation and Biotic Stress for Plants -- Comparative Study of the Effects of Endocrine Disruptor and Ionizing Radiation with Plant Bioassay -- Genetic Factors, Environment and Toxicants -- Cytogenetic Effects in Plants after Weak and Combined Exposures and a Problem of Ecological Standardization -- Role of Various Components of Ecosystems in Biogeochemical Migration of Pollutants of Antropogenic Origin in Forests -- Ecological Inspection of Military Objects -- The Procedure of Military Sites Rehabilitation with Optimal Planning of Tender Orders -- Modeling and Simulation of 137Cs Migration in Boreal Forest Ecosystems -- Behavior of Cs-137 and Sr-90 on Fish Ponds in Ukraine -- Genetic Effects of Chronic Gamma-Irradiation at a Low Dose Rate: Experimental Study on CBA/LAC Mice -- Applied Radioecology and Ecotoxicology -- Methods and Tasks of Radiation Montioring of Forest Ecosystems -- Similarities and Differences in Behavior of 137Cs, 40K and 7Be in Natural Ecosystems -- Heavy Metals Accumulation by Agricultural Crops Grown on Various Types of Soil in Polessje Zone of Ukraine -- The Brilliant Blue Method for Water Soluble Chernobyl 137Cs Behaviour Estimation in Soils of South Belarus -- Aquatic Ecosystems Within the Chernobyl NPP Exclusion Zone: The Latest Data on Radionuclide Contamination and Absorbed Dose for Hydrobionts -- Role of Higher Plants in the Redidstribution of Radionuclides in Water Ecosystems -- Problems of the Radiation Safety on Military Objects of Ukraine -- Landscape Criticality Indexes for the Different Pollutants -- Ecosystems of 30-KM Zones of Khmelnytsky and Rivne NPP: Estimation of Migration Conditions of the Radionuclides and Other Technical Pollutants -- Possibility of Standardization of Radionuclides and Chemotoxicants -- Radionuclides 137Cs and 60Co Uptake by Freshwater and Marine Microalgae Chlorella, Navicula, Phaeodactylum -- Principal Component Analysis of Chronic Influence of Low-Doses of Ionizing Radiation and Cadmium on Organisms -- Characterization and Treatment of Actinide Contaminated Soils and Well Waters -- The Endogenic and Exogenic Factors of the Realization of Phenotypic Adaptation -- Biological Approach to Evaluating the Ecological Safety of Radioactive Waste Disposal System: Study of Small Rodents -- Use of Photosynthesis and Respiration of Hydrophytes for Water Toxicity Definition.…”
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