Scintillating-nanoparticle-induced enhancement of absorbed radiation dose

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7189, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Withers, Nathan J ^a   Plumley, John B ^a   Triño, Nicole D ^a   Sankar, Krishnaprasad ^a   Akins, Brian A ^a   Rivera, Antonio C ^a   Smolyakov, Gennady A ^a   Osinski ^a   Timmins, Graham S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbed dose enhancement; Colloidal nanoparticles; Radiation damage; Scintillation

Indexed keywords

CERIUM COMPOUNDS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIATION DAMAGE; SCINTILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABSORBED DOSE; ABSORPTION AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; CELL-KILLING MECHANISM; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPIES (EDS); ENHANCED ABSORPTION; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 66749093110     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.816628     Document Type: Conference Paper

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