The dosimetric feasibility of gold nanoparticle-aided radiation therapy (GNRT) via brachytherapy using low-energy gamma-/x-ray sources

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 4889-4905

  Cho, Sang Hyun ^a   Jones, Bernard L ^a   Krishnan, Sunil ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC NUMBERS; AUGER ELECTRON; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; ELECTRON SPECTRUM; FLUENCES; GOLD CONCENTRATION; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH DOSE RATE; LOW ENERGIES; MONTE CARLO; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOELECTRIC ABSORPTION; RADIATION SOURCE; RADIATION THERAPY; TUMOR DOSE; X RAY IRRADIATION; X-RAY SOURCES;

ATOMS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SOURCES; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; GOLD; IRIDIUM; IRRADIATION; NANOPARTICLES; ONCOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY APPARATUS; YTTERBIUM;

TUMORS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; IODINE 125; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM 169; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA RAYS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 70349784213     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/16/004     Document Type: Article

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