History of HDR Brachytherapy. To understand the High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy system, one needs to know about the Low Dose Rate (LDR) brachytherapy system in order to compare the two. LDR, once the only type of brachytherapy available, has limitations: Limited ability to shape or conform the radiation to fit the tumor.
Harvey J. Kliman is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the ...
William harvey Harvey the man. William Harvey was born in 1578 AD in Kent, England. In 1593, he matriculated as a student at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied classics, rhetoric and philosophy. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1597, Harvey studied medicine at Padua in Italy, the greatest medical school of the time.