In another option, called brachytherapy, a technician places a solid form of radiation -- like a capsule or other type of implant -- into your body. They put it inside you using a small tube ...

External beam radiotherapy does not make patients radioactive. Patients who receive radioactive implants (brachytherapy) or radionuclide therapy might be radioactive for several days to months but ...

Brachytherapy uses sealed radioactive sources that are placed directly into tumors (interstitial) or in body cavities (intracavitary). One example is the implant of some 125Iodine inside the prostate ...

Results of the 27-patient prospective trial were recently published in the Journal of Radiation Oncology. The device known as the BioProtect Balloon Implant was tested on patients with localized ...

a dental practitioner may really comply to ALADIP principles for optimisation and radiation protection in daily practice (Figure 5). [9] Postoperative use of CBCT in implant dentistry represents a ...