# Nuclide record ho-166 (isotope). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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<https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ho-166/>
  a schema:ChemicalSubstance ;
  nuclide:kind "isotope" ;
  schema:identifier "ho-166" ;
  schema:name "Holmium-166"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "166Ho"@en, "Ho-166"@en ;
  schema:description "A radioactive metal built into tiny beads that are injected into the artery feeding a liver tumour, where they lodge and irradiate it from close range. Unlike similar beads made with yttrium-90, these can also be seen clearly on a scan."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ho-166/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9626412/>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta985/chapter/2-Information-about-QuiremSpheres>, <https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/jnumed/early/2022/05/19/jnumed.122.263823.full.pdf> ;
  nuclide:status "approved" ;
  nuclide:tag "therapy", "beta emitter", "gamma emitter", "radioembolisation", "MRI-visible" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioembolisation-tare/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/y-90/>, <https://nuclide.cc/indications/hcc/>, <https://nuclide.cc/indications/hcc-intermediate/> .