US PATENT SUBCLASS 600 / 1
RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLIED TO BODY FOR THERAPY

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1RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLIED TO BODY FOR THERAPY {2}
2  DF  .~> Combined with other radiant or wave energy source (e.g., electromagnetic, thermal, microwave etc.)
3  DF  .~> Radioactive substance placed within body (e.g., inhaled, implanted, injected, etc.) {3}

DEFINITION

Classification: 600/1

RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE APPLIED TO BODY FOR THERAPY:

(under the class definition) Subject matter for the application of radiation emitted by radioactivity, including alpha particles, gamma rays, nucleus and electrons, from a radioactive substance to or within the body for therapeutic purposes.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

250, Radiant Energy,

493.1, for radioactive source generally.

252, Compositions,

625+, for radioactive compositions in general.

423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds,

2+, and 249+ for processes of preparing radioactive compounds by a chemical reaction. 424, Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions, particularly

1.11+, for radionuclide containing subject matter, for: compositions (A) for preventing, alleviating, treating, or curing abnormal and pathological conditions of the living body, for maintaining, increasing, decreasing, limiting, or destroying a physiologic body function, for diagnosing a physiological condition or state by an in vivo test, for controlling or protecting an environment or living body by attracting, disabling, inhibiting, killing, modifying, repelling, or retarding an animal or micro-organism, (B) for deodorizing, protecting, adorning, or grooming a body, (C) for fermentates and extracts for use in A or B and not elsewhere provided for, and (D) such compositions defined in terms of specific structure; methods of making the above compositions; nominal methods of using the class defined compositions for purposes in A and B; and methods of using compounds, per se, for purposes in A and B. Class 600 provides for manipulative methods of using the Class 424 defined compositions for purposes in A and B. See the Class Definitions in Class 424 for the line between Class 128 (and its subsidiary classes) and Class 424.