Definition of "iodine-125" []

• Light radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 60 days; used as a tracer in thyroid studies and as a treatment for hyperthyroidism (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Ionizing radiation can also come from industrially produced radioactive materials (such as iridium-192); nuclear medicine (such as thyroid cancertreatment with iodine-131 and thyroid scans using iodine-125, or bone scans using technetium-99m); biological and medical research using carbon-14, tritium, and phosphorus-32; the nuclear fuel cycle (producing fission products such as cesium-137 and activation products such as cobalt-60); and production and testing of nuclear weapons."
• "Tiny iodine-125 capsules known as "seeds" are placed in specific positions in the prostate, ensuring that the dose is optimally distributed within the target tissue, without exposing the surrounding organs."
• "The Company's brachytherapy product line includes its palladium-103 TheraSeed www.theraseed.com, and the iodine-125 based devices I-Seed and OncoSeed™, all of which are used primarily in the minimally invasive treatment of localized prostate cancer."