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ArticleJournal of contemporary brachytherapy2016

Investigation of the gold nanoparticles effects on the prostate dose distribution in brachytherapy: gel dosimetry and Monte Carlo method.

Hossein Khosravi, Bijan Hashemi, Faezeh Rahmani, Ahmad Ebadi

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Article in Journal of contemporary brachytherapy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hossein KhosraviDepartment of Medical Physics, Salamat Institute, Chamran Hospital.
Bijan HashemiDepartment of Medical Physics, Tarbiat Modares University.
Faezeh RahmaniDepartment of Physics, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Ahmad EbadiDepartment of Medical Physics, Salamat Institute, Chamran Hospital.
K.N.Toosi University of Technology · IRTarbiat Modares University · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeIn this work, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) were embedded in the MAGIC-f polymer gel irradiated with the MATERIAL AND

methodsAt the first plexiglas phantom was made as the human pelvis. The GNPs were synthesized with 15 nm in diameter and 0.1 mM (0.0197 mg/ml) in concentration by using a chemical reduction method. Then, the MAGIC-f gel was synthesized. The fabricated gel was poured into the tubes located at the prostate (with and without the GNPs) locations of the phantom. The phantom was irradiated with

resultsThe mean absorbed doses in the presence of the GNPs in prostate were 14% higher than the corresponding values without the GNPs in the brachytherapy. The gamma index analysis (between gel and MC) using 7%/7 mm was also applied to the data and a high pass rate achieved (91.7% and 86.4% for analysis with/without GNPs, respectively).

conclusionsThe real three-dimensional analysis shows the comparison of the dose-volume histograms measured for planning volumes and the expected one from the MC calculation. The results indicate that the polymer gel dosimetry method, which developed and used in this study, could be recommended as a reliable method for investigating the dose enhancement factor of GNPs in brachytherapy.

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192IrGNPsMAGIC-fMonte Carloprostate cancer

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