Locally increased mortality of gamma-irradiated cells in presence of lanthanide-halide nanoparticles

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7909, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Withersa, Nathan J ^a   Glazener, Natasha N ^a   Plumley, John B ^a   Akins, Brian A ^a   Rivera, Antonio C ^a   Cook, Nathaniel C ^a   Smolyakov, Gennady A ^a   Timmins, Graham S ^b   Osiński, Marek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidal nanoparticles; Lanthanum fluoride; Monte Carlo simulations; Radiation therapy; Scintillation

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; DIRECT CALCULATION; DOSE ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; FIGURE OF MERIT; GAMMA FLUXES; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; LANTHANIDES; LANTHANUM FLUORIDE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINES; PHOTON ENERGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION THERAPY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CERIUM; CESIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA RAYS; IRIDIUM; LANTHANUM; LANTHANUM ALLOYS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOPARTICLES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YEAST;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79952633439     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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