Published August 2000
| Version v1
Journal article
Recent developments in brachytherapy
Description
The history of radiotherapy is briefly reviewed. The developments of brachytherapy in therapeutic installation, choice of nuclides, manufacture of radioactive source and irradiation technique are described at home and abroad in the recent years, and the prospect of brachytherapy is also foreseen in the next century
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Isotopes
- Journal Volume
- 13
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 170-176
- ISSN
- 1000-7512
INIS
- Country of Publication
- China
- Country of Input or Organization
- China
- INIS RN
- 32018465
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- CALIFORNIUM 252; CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; EQUIPMENT; GOLD 198; IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192; MINIATURIZATION; MINIMIZATION; NEOPLASMS; NEUTRON SOURCES; PALLADIUM 103; PHOSPHORUS 32; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOTHERAPY; RHODIUM 106; RUTHENIUM 106; STRONTIUM 90; XENON 133; YTTERBIUM 169; YTTRIUM 90
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALKALINE EARTH ISOTOPES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CALIFORNIUM ISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; GOLD ISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; IODINE ISOTOPES; IRIDIUM ISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MEDICINE; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OPTIMIZATION; PALLADIUM ISOTOPES; PARTICLE SOURCES; PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOLOGY; RARE EARTH NUCLEI; RHODIUM ISOTOPES; RUTHENIUM ISOTOPES; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; THERAPY; XENON ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; YTTERBIUM ISOTOPES; YTTRIUM ISOTOPES