Monte Carlo Evaluation of Dose Enhancement Due to CuATSM or GNP Uptake in Hypoxic Environments with External Beam Radiation [PDF]
International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2020 Stephen Martinez, Alexander Brandl, Del Leary Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USACorrespondence: Stephen Martinez Email skmartin@colostate.eduPurpose: Most solid tumors contain ...
Martinez S, Brandl A, Leary D
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A Monte Carlo Study on Dose Enhancement by Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Distributions of Gold Nanoparticles in Radiotherapy with Low Energy X-rays [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering, 2018 Background: To enhance the dose to tumor, the use of high atomic number elements has been proposed. Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of gold nanoparticle distribution on dose enhancement in tumor when the tumor is ...
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Radiation Dose-Enhancement Is a Potent Radiotherapeutic Effect of Rare-Earth Composite Nanoscintillators in Preclinical Models of Glioblastoma. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh), 2020 Bulin AL +14 more
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A detailed experimental and Monte Carlo analysis of gold nanoparticle dose enhancement using 6 MV and 18 MV external beam energies in a macroscopic scale. [PDF]
Appl Radiat Isot, 2021 Gray T +6 more
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High-dose vitamin C enhances cancer immunotherapy [PDF]
Science Translational Medicine, 2020 Vitamin C promotes anticancer adaptive immunity and enhances efficacy of immune checkpoint therapy.
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Investigation of the dose enhancement effect of spherical bismuth oxide nanoparticles in external beam radiotherapy [PDF]
Nanomedicine Research Journal, 2020 Introduction: External radiotherapy is the most common method of radiotherapy which the most important problem associated with is that there is no difference between healthy and tumor tissues in dose absorption.
Zahra Alyani Nezhad +5 more
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Journal of Nanotheranostics, 2023 Gold nanoparticles are a promising candidate for developing new strategies of therapy against cancer. Due to their high atomic number and relative biocompatibility, they are commonly investigated as radiosensitizers to locally increase the dose of ...
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Clinical Feasibility Study of Gold Nanoparticles as Theragnostic Agents for Precision Radiotherapy
Biomedicines, 2022 Background: Gold nanoparticles (AuNP) may be useful in precision radiotherapy and disease monitoring as theragnostic agents. In diagnostics, they can be detected by computerized tomography (CT) because of their higher atomic number. AuNP may also improve
José Antonio López-Valverde +2 more
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Gold Nanoparticle DNA Damage by Photon Beam in a Magnetic Field: A Monte Carlo Study
Nanomaterials, 2021 Ever since the emergence of magnetic resonance (MR)-guided radiotherapy, it is important to investigate the impact of the magnetic field on the dose enhancement in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), when gold nanoparticles are used as radiosensitizers during ...
Mehwish Jabeen, James C. L. Chow
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Intercomparison of dose enhancement ratio and secondary electron spectra for gold nanoparticles irradiated by X-rays calculated using multiple Monte Carlo simulation codes. [PDF]
Phys Med, 2020 Li WB +23 more
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