Enhanced relative biological effectiveness of proton radiotherapy in tumor cells with internalized gold nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Polf, Jerimy C ^a   Bronk, Lawrence F ^a   Driessen, Wouter H P ^a   Arap, Wadih ^a   Pasqualini, Renata ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLES; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROTON BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TUMOR CELLS;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; PROTONS; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 79959643668     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3589914     Document Type: Article

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