Image-Guided Brachytherapy: Interventional Setting, Technique, and Peri-interventional Patient Management

The brachytherapy catheter is usually implanted by the Seldinger method, as a rule under guidance by CT fluoroscopy. This demands a high degree of cooperation between interventional radiology and radiation therapy, in order to ensure optimum irradiation. For safety reasons, the usual setting is an in-patient one.