(n.) A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder. Symbol Y. Atomic weight, 89.
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(1) These data indicate that 1) the equilibrium stability constant is not a good indicator of the in vivo stability of metal-labeled proteins and 2) it is possible to manipulate the ion distribution and therefore the dose from scandium-47 and yttrium-90 after injection of the labeled proteins.
(2) Both abscesses were drained transendoscopically by use of a contact neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet laser.
(3) A neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser was used to study effects of applying laser irradiation transendoscopically to the corniculate process of the arytenoid cartilage in horses.
(4) It decomposes to Yttrium 90 which has a half life of 62 hours.
(5) Differences in the degree of chromosomal damage have been shown with various colloidal forms of yttrium 90, and the severity of these changes has been shown to correlate with the degree of leakage of radio-isotope to the draining lymph node rather than with whole-body irradiation.
(6) A neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser was used to induce highly reproducible focal cortical lesions in anesthetized rats.
(7) An elderly male patient with advanced prostatic adenocarcinoma, requiring increasing analgesia, underwent interstitial pituitary irradiation by implantation of yttrium-90.
(8) To measure the concentrations of yttrium-oxide-coated small-dispersed silicon nitride plasma powder, the air was aspirated at the amount of 10-15 litres per min through the AFA-XP filter.
(9) These data indicate that the human liver may tolerate relatively large radiation doses when delivered by Yttrium-90 microspheres embedded in the liver parenchyma as a number of discrete point sources.
(10) This article reviews holmium:YAG (yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser physics, its tissue effects, and reports initial experience with its use in TMJ arthroscopy.
(11) Based upon the assumption that oxygen may be a key to superconductivity properties, we have also investigated the visibility of the oxygen sites as well as the heavier yttrium and barium ion positions and the lighter Cu atom positions.
(12) Removal of the lipoma was achieved with the Neodymium-Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet (Nd:YAG) laser through a fiberoptic bronchoscope.
(13) Five patients with severe fibrous subglottic and tracheal stenosis were treated by endoscopic radial laser incision and dilation using both carbon dioxide and neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet lasers.
(14) A technique is described using a neodymium:yttrium-aluminium-garnet (Nd:YAG) laser in combination with a special tracheoscope and high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV).
(15) Furthermore, high rates of yttrium-88 elution correlated with deposition in bone.
(16) Nine patients were treated with preoperative endobronchial neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser resection to facilitate a lung-preserving surgical resection.
(17) We conclude that this newly devised technique for transurethral prostatectomy in the canine model can be performed safely and effectively using a Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet laser (Neodymium:YAG).
(18) Successful imaging with this system has been performed with beta-emitters 14C, sulfur-35 (35S), iodine-131 (131I), yttrium-90 (90Y), and positron emitters gallium-68 (68Ga), and fluorine-18 (18F).
(19) In an attempt to ablate the laryngeal saccule as an alternative method of sacculectomy (conventially done through a laryngotomy incision for laryngeal hemiplegia) a neodymium:yttrium aluminum garnet laser was used transendoscopically in noncontact fashion in 6 horses.
(20) A 22-micron glass microsphere called TheraSphere (Theragenics Corp., Atlanta, GA) has been developed in which yttrium 89 oxide is incorporated into the glass matrix and is activated by neutron bombardment to form the beta-emitting isotope yttrium 90 (Y 90) before using the spheres as radiotherapeutic vehicles.