Open AccessDose enhancement in gold nanoparticle-aided radiotherapy for the therapeutic photon beams using Monte Carlo technique
Author(s) -
Nitin R Kakade,
Sunil Dutt Sharma
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.147691
Subject(s) - dosimeter , monte carlo method , materials science , dosimetry , colloidal gold , irradiation , nuclear medicine , radiation , nanoparticle , radiation therapy , photon , biomedical engineering , radiochemistry , optics , physics , chemistry , medicine , nanotechnology , radiology , mathematics , nuclear physics , statistics
Gold nanoparticle (GNP)-aided radiation therapy (RT) is useful to make the tumor more sensitive to radiation damage because of the enhancement in the dose inside the tumor region. Polymer gel dosimeter (PGD) can be a good choice for the physical measurement of dose enhancement produced by GNP inside the gel.