Endovascular Brachytherapy. A Concise English-German Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms

Abstract

Brachytherapy has been established worldwide as outstanding radiotherapeutic modality in the treatment of certain coronary and peripheral artery conditions and has initially been focused on in English language publications. Any new form of interdisciplinary medical treatment poses terminological problems and uncertainties. The following bilingual glossary aims at cardiologists, radiotherapists, medical physicists, and also at translators and interpreters. It attempts to clarify the most frequent nomenclature q…