International Brachytherapy, S.a.

Emtec Magnetics Gmbh

Michael Willis

James Edward Fox

Alan Lionel Hudd

John L Russell, Jr

John L Carden, Jr

Helmut Steininger

Peter Heilmann

A method and apparatus for precisely applying radioactive material to a substrate such as a brachytherapy device is disclosed. A radioactive fluid adapted to cure rapidly is deposited as discrete dots onto a surface with a fluid-jet printhead. The apparatus comprises a fluid-jet printhead in communication with a chamber containing radioactive fluid to be applied by the printhead. The printhead is microprocessor driven, and the microprocessor may be provided with feedback from a station where the radioactivity deposited on a preceding substrate in a batch is measured, permitting the system to be recalibrated on an ongoing basis as the batch of printed devices is produced. Compensation for attenuation of radiation by a casing may also be made part of the feedback technique. Also disclosed is a brachytherapy device having printed on a surface dots of radiation-emitting material, in a pattern comprising various bands, dots or areas. Fluids suitable for printing by a fluid-jet printhead comprise a binder such as an acrylic resin or silicate, and a radioactive salt, compound or complex, dissolved in a radiation resistant solvent. Alternative fluids comprise radioactive salts, compounds, or complexes adsorbed onto a microparticulate carrier, or elemental microparticles, dispersed in a rapidly curable radiation-resistant fluid medium.

Fluid-jet deposition of radioactive material

Fluid-jet deposition of radioactive material for brachytherapy devices

In the production of an anticopy film serving for covering documents against copying, opaque, strip-like coverings are applied by printing to the individual layers of a transparent, multilayer film in a mutually offset arrangement in such a way that the film appears opaque in the plan view, but transparent in an inclined viewing direction. To this end, a film web is printed with the coverings in sections corresponding to the layers, and the sections are subsequently folded over to give the layers.

Process for the production of an anticopy film

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Histon, United Kingdom

Michael Willis