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Californium-252 Isotope for 21st Century Radiotherapy

Californium-252 Isotope for 21st Century Radiotherapy

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Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 3, Book 29

Medical ReferenceBiologyPhysics

ISBN10: 0792345436
ISBN13: 9780792345435
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 30 1997
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Californium-252 is a neutron emitter with a high specific activity, making it useful in a variety of applications, the most spectacular of which is in brachytherapy for cancer patients. Radiation oncology has exhausted nearly every option for treating radioresistant tumors by photon brachytherapy, and therefore new types of radiation need to be studied to improve the curability of cancer.
Audience: Californium brachytherapy is used in only a few radiation therapy centers in the world, so the book will be highly instructive for radiation oncologists, medical physicists and radiobiologists. The nuclear techniques used in clinical applications may also interest nuclear physicists and engineers.

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