Beam energy considerations for gold nano-particle enhanced radiation treatment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4509-4520

  Van Den Heuvel, F ^a   Locquet, Jean Pierre ^a   Nuyts, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; X-RAYS;

EID: 78149296755     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/16/S06     Document Type: Article

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