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Californium-252 Isotope for 21st Century Radiotherapy /

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, a...

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Main Author:	Wierzbicki, Jacek G.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer, 1997.
Series:	NATO ASI Series, 3. High Technology, ; 29.
Subjects:	Californium > Therapeutic use > Congresses. Cancer > Radiotherapy > Congresses. Radioisotope brachytherapy > Congresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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