Radiotherapy in the presence of contrast agents: A general figure of merit and its application to gold nanoparticles

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5635-5651

  McMahon, Stephen J ^a   Mendenhall, Marcus H ^b   Jain, Suneil ^a   Currell, Fred ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; AGENTS; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ATOMS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOPARTICLES; NUMERICAL METHODS; ONCOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUNGSTEN;

ANALYTICAL METHODS; ATOMIC NUMBERS; CONTRAST AGENTS; FIGURE OF MERITS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HEAVY ELEMENTS; HUMAN NECKS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHOTOELECTRIC CROSS SECTIONS; PHOTON BEAMS; SOURCE TYPES; TEST CASES; TUMOURS;

TUMORS;

ALUMINUM; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; THORIUM; TUNGSTEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG TUMOR LEVEL; DRUG UPTAKE; FILTER; FILTRATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIATION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; TARGET ORGAN; TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME; X RAY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 58149216011     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/20/005     Document Type: Article

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