Dose enhancement by various nanoparticles in prostate brachytherapy

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 431-440

  Ghorbani, Mahdi ^a   Bakhshabadi, Mahdi ^a   Golshan, Alireza ^a   Knaup, Courtney ^b  

^a NORTH KHORASAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Department of Hematology Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Dose enhancement; Monte Carlo; Nanoparticles; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; GOLD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; ONCOLOGY; PLATINUM; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS; TUMORS; UROLOGY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; DOSE ENHANCEMENTS; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; PRECLINICAL STUDIES; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE CANCERS; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION;

SILVER;

GADOLINIUM NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; IODINE 125; IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; PLATINUM NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY IMPLANT; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION;

ANISOTROPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; NANOPARTICLES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 84893665385     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-013-0231-z     Document Type: Article

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