The effect of flattening filter free delivery on endothelial dose enhancement with gold nanoparticles

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Detappe, Alexandre ^a,b   Tsiamas, Panagiotis ^a,c   Ngwa, Wilfred ^a   Zygmanski, Piotr ^a   Makrigiorgos, Mike ^a   Berbeco, Ross ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

dose enhancement; flattening filter free; gold nanoparticle; Monte Carlo; vascular disrupting agent

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TUMORS;

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; DOSE ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; DOSE ENHANCEMENTS; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; FLATTENING FILTERS; INCIDENT PHOTON ENERGY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; VASCULAR DISRUPTING AGENTS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENERGY; FILTER; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 84874777915     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4791671     Document Type: Article

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