Open AccessTumor dose enhancement by nanoparticles during high dose rate 192 Ir brachytherapy
Author(s) -
Mansour Zabihzadeh,
Sahar Arefian
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 - 10.4103/0973-1482.153668
Subject(s) - brachytherapy , nanoparticle , nuclear medicine , materials science , dose rate , chemistry , radiochemistry , radiation therapy , nanotechnology , medicine , radiology
The present study aims to evaluate and compare the dose enhancement factor (DEF) of tumor injected with different nanoparticles (NPs) around high dose rate (HDR) (192)Ir brachytherapy source.