Published June 2003
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Report
Nordic group on X-ray diagnostics: Intravascular brachytherapy - what it is and what the Nordic authorities demand
- 1. Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, Stockholm (Sweden)
- 2. National Institute of Radiation Hygiene, Herlev (Denmark)
- 3. Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki (Finland)
- 4. Icelandic Radiation Protection Institute, Reykjavik (Iceland)
- 5. Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, Helsinki (Finland)
Description
Intravascular brachytherapy is radiotherapy of the blood vessel to prevent it from re-narrowing after angioplasty. Angioplasty is a treatment for coronary artery disease where the artery that supplies the heart muscle with blood is blocked or narrowed. The radiotherapy is performed to decrease the growth of normal tissue and thus prevent the risk of restenosis, i.e. prevent it from renarrowing. Intravascular brachytherapy after angioplasty has decreased the restenosis with more than 60%. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- ISBN
- 951-712-682-4; 951-712-681-6
- Imprint Title
- Radiation protection in the 2000s - Theory and practice. Nordic Society for Radiation Protection. Proceedings of the XIII ordinary meeting
- Imprint Pagination
- 521 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 276-279
- Report number
- STUK-A--195
Conference
- Title
- 13. ordinary meeting of the Nordic Society of Radiation Protection
- Dates
- 25-29 Aug 2002
- Place
- Turku (Finland)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Finland
- Country of Input or Organization
- Finland
- INIS RN
- 34081426
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature, Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSELS; LICENSING REGULATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY
- Descriptors DEC
- BLOOD VESSELS; BODY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ISOTOPES; LAWS; MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGANS; RADIOLOGY; REGULATIONS; THERAPY