COMBINATION RADIOACTIVE AND TEMPERATURE SELF-REGULATING THERMAL SEED IMPLANT FOR TREATING TUMORS

摘要

An implanting seed for simultaneous delivery of thermal and radioactive radiation to target tissue comprises a tube (12) or rod (52) of a ferromagnetic alloy, which when subjected to an oscillating magnetic field, will heat up the alloy also being coated or otherwise treated with a radioactive isotope (22) that gives off x-ray radiation during the decay thereof.