RADIOACTIVE MEDICAL IMPLANT AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD

• Main Authors: DREGER THORSTEN, PRZYKUTTA ANDREAS, KNOPP ROGER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.12.2006
• Subjects: CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; ELECTROTHERAPY; GAMMA RAY OR X-RAY MICROSCOPES; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IRRADIATION DEVICES; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; NUCLEAR ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHYSICS; RADIATION THERAPY; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING PARTICLES OR IONISING RADIATION NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ULTRASOUND THERAPY

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new radioactive medical implant (small ray source called "a seed") having very excellent X-ray visualizing performance, reducing artifact generated in computer tomography (CT) image and ensuring excellent objects of magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) images, and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The radioactive medical implant has a metallic carrier having radio-transparency, radio-resistance, compatibility to a human body, and added with radioactive isotopes, and the carrier comprises molybdenum coated or alloyed with a ferromagnetic metal, and the outmost layer of the carrier comprises a silver coating. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT