[A proposal for dosage and volume specification and documentation in HDR brachytherapy].
BACKGROUND
Modern computer-aided brachytherapy techniques and the various clinical and radiobiological methods require a review and standardization of dose specification and documentation in brachytherapy.


METHODS
The methods and the extent of the dose specification and documentation have been analysed on the base of known international and national procedure. A new modified report has been prepared for the standardized dose specification for HDR-brachytherapy techniques.


RESULTS
Brachytherapy treatments are supposed to be documented in 3 different levels (I to III), the extent of which depending on the treated volume, the therapeutic aim and the equipment available.


CONCLUSIONS
The extent of documentation and dose specification proposed in this paper requires the close cooperation of radio-oncologists and medical physicists. It seems to be advantageous to use prepared sheets or computer prints in order to minimize the time and efforts for a sufficient documentation.
Krieger
H
H
Abteilung Medizin-Physik, Klinikum Ingolstadt.
Baltas
D
D
Kneschaurek
P
P
D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D011881:Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D009626:Terminology as Topic
Vorschlag zur Dosis- und Volumenspezifikation und Dokumentation in der HDR-Brachytherapie.