111 A Phase II study of salvage high-dose-rate brachytherapy for the treatment of locally recurrent prostate cancer after definitive external beam radiotherapyYoshiya Yamada, Marisa A. Kollmeier, Xin Pei, Chu Cheng Kan, Gil’ad N. Cohen, Sherri M. Donat, Brett W. Cox, Michael J. Zelefsky

117 The 15-year outcomes of high-dose-rate brachytherapy for radical dose escalation in patients with prostate cancer—A benchmark for high-tech external beam radiotherapy alone?Razvan M. Galalae, Nuria Helena Zakikhany, Friedemann Geiger, Frank‑Andre Siebert, Gunnar Bockelmann, Jürgen Schultze, Bernhard Kimmig

123 High-dose-rate brachytherapy with or without intensity modulated radiation therapy as salvage treatment for an isolated, gross local recurrence of prostate cancer post-prostatectomyTobin J. Strom, Richard B. Wilder, Daniel C. Fernandez, Eric A. Mellon, Amarjit S. Saini, Dylan C. Hunt, Matthew C. Biagioli

128 High-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy based on registered transrectal ultrasound and in-room cone-beam CT imagesAniek J.G. Even, Tonnis T. Nuver, Hendrik Westendorp, Carel J. Hoekstra, Cornelis H. Slump, André W. Minken

137 Multi-parametric MRI-guided focal tumor boost using HDR prostate brachytherapy: A feasibility studyJosh Mason, Bashar Al‑Qaisieh, Peter Bownes, Dan Wilson, David L. Buckley, David Thwaites, Brendan Carey, Ann Henry

146 Multisector prostate dosimetric quality: Analysis of a large community databaseGregory S. Merrick, Wayne M. Butler, Peter Grimm, Mallory Morris, Jonathan H. Lief, Abbey Bennett, Ryan Fiano

152 Dosimetric quality and evolution of edema after low-dose-rate brachytherapy for small prostates: Implications for the use of newer isotopesKonstantin A. Kovtun, Luciant Wolfsberger, Thomas Niedermayr, Emily N. Sugar, Powell L. Graham, Yonina Murciano‑Goroff, Clair Beard, Anthony V. D’Amico, Neil E. Martin, Peter F. Orio, Paul L. Nguyen

157 Declining use of brachytherapy for the treatment of prostate cancerUsama Mahmood, Thomas Pugh, Steven Frank, Lawrence Levy, Gary Walker, Waqar Haque, Matthew Koshy, William Graber, David Swanson, Karen Hoffman, Deborah Kuban, Andrew Lee

163 An age-corrected matched-pair study of erectile function in patients treated with dose-escalated adaptive image-guided intensity-modulated radiation therapy vs. high-dose-rate brachytherapy for prostate cancerOvidiu Marina, Jillian Warner, Hong Ye, Inga S. Grills, Chirag Shah, Michelle Wallace, Gary S. Gustafson, Donald S. Brabbins, Alvaro A. Martinez, Daniel J. Krauss

169 Real-time measurement of urethral dose and position during permanent seed implantation for prostate brachytherapyAmanda J. Cherpak, Joanna E. Cygler, Choan E, Gad Perry

BRACHYTHERAPY An International Multidisciplinary Journal

Official Journal of the American Brachytherapy Society

VOLUME 13, NUMBER 2, MARCH-APRIL 2014

Table of Contents

178 Perioperative image-adapted brachytherapy for the treatment of paranasal sinus and nasal cavity malignanciesIngo U. Teudt, Jens E. Meyer, Matthias Ritter, Barbara Wollenberg, Torsten Kolb, Steffen Maune, György Kovàcs

187 Re-irradiation with interstitial pulsed-dose-rate brachytherapy for unresectable recurrent head and neck carcinomaVratislav Strnad, Michael Lotter, Stephan Kreppner, Rainer Fietkau

196 Efficacy and morbidity of temporary 125I brachytherapy in pediatric rhabdomyosarcomasCourtney Hentz, William Barrett

203 Image-guided brachytherapy for cervical cancer: Analysis of D2 cc hot spot in three-dimensional and anatomic factors affecting D2 cc hot spot in organs at riskRobert Y. Kim, Alek F. Dragovic, Alexander C. Whitley, Sui Shen

210 Impact of delineation uncertainties on dose to organs at risk in CT-guided intracavitary brachytherapyFrances K. Duane, Brian Langan, Charles Gillham, Lorraine Walsh, Guhan Rangaswamy, Ciara Lyons, Mary Dunne, Christopher Walker, Orla McArdle