Nanoparticle Enhanced Radiation Therapy: Principles, methods and applications - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750323973 ISBN 13: 9780750323970

Verlag: IOP Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Improved targeting of abnormal cells and tissue in the radiotherapy of cancer has been a long-standing goal of researchers. The central purpose of nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy (NPRT) is to more precisely control where the radiation dose is delivered, desirably with subcellular precision, provided we can find a method to bring the nanoparticles to target as well as control their concentration and size distribution.

The contents within this book will cover the rationale and fundamental principles of NPRT, optimal nanoparticle sizes, concentrations, design and fabrication, effective nanoparticle delivery methods, emerging clinical applications of NRT modalities, treatment planning and quality assurance and the potential of NPRT in global health. This volume will serve as a resource for researchers, educators and industry, and as a practical guide or comprehensive reference for students, research trainees and others working in cancer nanomedicine.

Key Features

• Covers the most important advances in nanoparticle-aided radiation therapy over the last few decades
• Features contributions from leaders in the field
• Focuses first on the fundamentals of radiosensitization, then it continues with imaging methods and concludes with various clinical applications

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Erno Sajo is a Professor and the Director of medical physics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he also serves as the Director of biomedical engineering and biotechnology. His research areas are radiation transport computations at the nanoscale with emphasis on interfacial effects, including nanoparticle transport, the physiological translocation of nanoparticles, and nanoparticle enhanced radiation therapy. He is an Associate Editor of the Health Physics journal and has also served as an ad-hoc Editor of Medical Physics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: IOP Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0750323973
• ISBN 13: 9780750323970
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
• Herausgeber: Sajo Erno, Zygmanski Piotr
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland