The term brachytherapy denotes a special radiotherapy technique (from the Greek “brachy”, “short”) in which radioactive sources are placed in or near the tumor tissue, which is why it is also called internal or direct contact radiotherapy.
Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary field of science and technology that deals with the highly precise control and manipulation of fluids by geometrically constraining them in networks of small channels, typically less than 100 µm in diameter.