A number of hospitals around the country are touting the treatment, known as brachytherapy ... Under the therapy, radioactive beads that penetrate no more than 1⁄5 inch are placed inside ...

To plan your brachytherapy, you have a scan, such as a CT or an ultrasound scan ... They put tiny radioactive beads into a blood vessel that takes blood into your liver. The beads get stuck in the ...

In regular brachytherapy, radio-oncologists typically employ X-rays, ultrasound, MRI, or CT scan in order to position the radioactive substance to the exact location of interest. The use of X-rays ...

The isotopes most commonly used in brachytherapy, in which radioactive metal beads are placed next to a tumor, are iodine-125, iridium-192 and phosphorus-32, and the most commonly treated cancers ...

You usually come back for treatment within a week. You stay in the same position as you were for the CT scan. Your radiographers put in the applicator and connect it to the brachytherapy machine. They ...

This anatomical discrepancy is the basis for intra-arterial brachytherapy of liver cancers ... We propose dynamic contrast-enhanced CT as the most appropriate imaging modality for studying ...

One of the subsidiaries of the rapidly expanding BTG has temporarily stopped manufacturing some products at a U.S. plant after the FDA cited it in a warning letter. In an earnings note today, BTG ...

The procedure was performed by a team of radiation oncology experts led by Dr. Tarek Dufan, the hospital's Director for Radiation Oncology, using the CT scan based high dose brachytherapy radiation.

Once the cavity is acceptable, a Contura multi-lumen balloon catheter (Hologic, Bedford, MA) is inserted under local anesthesia in the high-dose rate–brachytherapy (HDR) suite, and the patient ...