Patent ID: 6454696
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
A device for implanting radioactive seeds in an animal body through a number of needles implanted in said animal body, said number being one or more, said device comprising:electronic control means; loading means connected to said control means for arranging a number of trains of said radioactive seeds in an equal number of channels within said loading means in response to said control means; drive means connected to said control means for extending a wire to push said trains of radioactive seeds from said channels through a number of tubes, said number being one or more, each said tube coupled at a first end to said one of said channels and coupled at a second end to one of said implant needles, in response to said control means; and retracting means connected to said implant needles for retracting each of said implant needles from said animal body while said pushing wire is in an extended position to thereby implant said radioactive seeds.