Impact of beam quality on megavoltage radiotherapy treatment techniques utilizing gold nanoparticles for dose enhancement

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 451-464

  Tsiamas, Panagiotis ^a,b   Liu, Bo ^a,c   Cifter, Fulya ^d   Ngwa, Wilfred F ^a   Berbeco, Ross I ^a   Kappas, Constantin ^b   Theodorou, Kiriaki ^b   Marcus, Karen ^a   Makrigiorgos, Mike G ^a   Sajo, Erno ^d   Zygmanski, Piotr ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; ENHANCEMENT RATIOS; FLATTENED BEAMS; FLATTENING FILTERS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; IN-FIELD; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; MEGAVOLTAGE; MONTE CARLO CODES; NORMAL TISSUE; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SUB-CELLULAR; X RAY BEAM;

GOLD; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872736359     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/3/451     Document Type: Article

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