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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2019
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (US);
The Regents of the University of Colorado, Denver, CO (US);
Frédéric Sarazin, Lakewood, CO (US);
Jeramy Zimmerman, Golden, CO (US);
Rachel Morneau, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Martin Ritter, College Park, MD (US);
David Westerly, Aurora, CO (US);
Quentin Diot, Aurora, CO (US);
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (US);
The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A novel treatment method is disclosed, wherein a patch configured to be placed on a patient's skin is activated, before placement, to deliver localized radiotherapy to a diseased area of the skin. The disclosed devices and methods minimize or prevent collateral damage to the neighboring tissues. In most cases, the disclosed devices and methods include coating a contoured, solid, flexible or conformal substrate with one or more lanthanide elements and then activating (e.g. neutron irradiation) the elements such that its resulting radioisotope emits beta-particles into the diseased skin surface when applied to the patient's skin. Novel processes are described for fabricating and irradiating the lanthanide-based skin patch, for example a holmium-based skin patch.