Imaging intracellular and systemic in vivo gold nanoparticles to enhance radiotherapy

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1054, 2015, Pages

  Botchway, S W ^a   Coulter, J A ^b   Currell, F J ^b  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOROD; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT; DRUG CARRIER; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG UPTAKE; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOSENSITIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEOPLASMS;

DRUG CARRIERS; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS;

EID: 84942162965     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: 1748880X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20150170     Document Type: Review

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