Monte carlo simulations and atomic calculations for auger processes in biomedical nanotheranostics

Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Volumn 113, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 12364-12369

  Montenegro, Maximiliano ^a   Nahar, Sultana N ^a   Pradhan, Anil K ^a   Huang, Ke ^b   Yu, Yan ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CALCULATIONS; AUGER DECAYS; AUGER PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; BODY MATERIALS; CANCEROUS TUMORS; ELECTRON EJECTION; ELECTRON VACANCIES; ELECTRONIC SHELLS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IN-VIVO; K-SHELLS; MOLECULAR TRANSITIONS; MONOCHROMATIC X-RAYS; MONOENERGETIC X-RAYS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NONRESONANT PROCESS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHOTON EMISSIONS; RADIATIVE DECAY; RESONANT ENERGY; RESONANT EXCITATION; SIMULATION RESULT; SPECIFIC SITES; THERANOSTICS; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; X RAY IRRADIATION; X-RAY EMISSION; X-RAY ENERGIES; X-RAY SOURCES;

ATOMS; AUGERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON SOURCES; GOLD DEPOSITS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; ONCOLOGY; SIMULATORS; TUMORS; VACANCIES; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY OPTICS;

X RAYS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METAL NANOPARTICLE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOMEDICINE; X RAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOMEDICINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; X-RAYS;

EID: 70449413830     PISSN: 10895639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp905323y     Document Type: Article

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