Gold Nanoparticles Permit In Situ Absorbed Dose Evaluation in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Malignant Tumors

• Main Authors: Alexander Zaboronok (Author), Sergey Taskaev (Author), Olga Volkova (Author), Ludmila Mechetina (Author), Anna Kasatova (Author), Tatiana Sycheva (Author), Kei Nakai (Author), Dmitrii Kasatov (Author), Aleksandr Makarov (Author), Iaroslav Kolesnikov (Author), Ivan Shchudlo (Author), Timofey Bykov (Author), Evgeniia Sokolova (Author), Alexey Koshkarev (Author), Vladimir Kanygin (Author), Aleksandr Kichigin (Author), Bryan J. Mathis (Author), Eiichi Ishikawa (Author), Akira Matsumura (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is an anticancer modality realized through ¹⁰B accumulation in tumor cells, neutron irradiation of the tumor, and decay of boron atoms with the release of alpha-particles and lithium nuclei that damage tumor cell DNA. As high-LET particle r...