Patent ID: 6350227
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
A manually operated afterloader for use with a radioactive tipped elongated sourcewire, the sourcewire having a relatively short radioactive portion and a relatively long non-radioactive portion comprising:a base; a shield capsule defining a pathway therethrough for receipt of a radioactive portion of a sourcewire; a sourcewire reel rotatably mounted with respect to the base, the sourcewire reel having a threaded groove formed in the circumference thereof for receipt of a non-radioactive portion of a sourcewire; a manually operable cranking mechanism mounted to the base and engagable with the sourcewire reel to rotate the sourcewire reel, the cranking mechanism, when operated driving the non-radioactive portion of the sourcewire out of the threaded groove to drive the radioactive portion of the sourcewire through the pathway and out of the shield capsule.