A Monte Carlo study on tissue dose enhancement in brachytherapy: A comparison between gadolinium and gold nanoparticles

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-185

  Toossi, Mohammad Taghi Bahreyni ^a   Ghorbani, Mahdi ^b   Mehrpouyan, Mohammad ^a   Akbari, Fateme ^a   Sabet, Leila Sobhkhiz ^a   Meigooni, Ali Soleimani ^c  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NORTH KHORASAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Department of Hematology Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dose enhancement; Gadolinium nanoparticles; Gold nanoparticles; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC NUMBERS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; GADOLINIUM NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO STUDY; RADIAL DISTANCE; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; SOFT TISSUE PHANTOMS;

ATOMS; GADOLINIUM; IRIDIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; YTTERBIUM;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

GADOLINIUM; GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GADOLINIUM; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84864531693     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-012-0143-3     Document Type: Article

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