Information on HDR afterloaders and brachytherapy

["Jacobus, John (OD)" <JJacobus@exchange.nih.gov>]

For those readers who are interested, the following sites may answer some of
your questions.

What is brachytherapy?  see

http://www.cetmc.com/brachytherapy.html

Description of an afterloader, see

http://www.os.varian.com/products/varisrc/specs/espec.html

-- John 

The comments are mine, alone.

John Jacobus, MS
Health Physicist
National Institutes of Health
Radiation Safety Branch, Building 21
21 Wilson Drive, MSC 6780
Bethesda, MD  20892-6780
Phone: 301-496-5774      Fax: 301-496-3544
jjacobus@exchange.nih.gov (W)
jenday@ix.netcom.com (H)
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