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NANOMEDICINE-NANOTECHNOLOGY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
卷 13, 期 5, 页码 1653-1661出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2017.02.017
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Gold nanoparticles; Dose enhancement; Radiotherapy; Dose anisotropy
Gold nanoparticle (GNP) radiotherapy has recently emerged as a promising modality in cancer treatment. The use of high atomic number nanoparticles can lead to enhanced radiation dose in tumors due to low-energy leakage electrons depositing in the vicinity of the GNP. A single metric, the dose enhancement ratio has been used in the literature, often in substantial disagreement, to quantify the GNP's capacity to increase local energy deposition. This 1D approach neglects known sources of dose anisotropy and assumes that one average value is representative of the dose enhancement. Whether this assumption is correct and within what accuracy limits it could be trusted, have not been studied due to computational difficulties at the nanoscale. Using a next-generation deterministic computational method, we show that significant dose anisotropy exists which may have radiobiological consequences, and can impact the treatment outcome as well as the development of treatment planning computational methods. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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