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Caesium-131
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Isotopes of caesium.
Caesium-131
Caesium-131 decays purely by electron capture to the ground state of stable xenon-131 with a half-life of 9.69 days; its detectable radiation is the X-rays of xenon, with a maximum energy of 34.5 keV. It was introduced in 2004 for brachytherapy by Isoray.