Cancer nanotechnology
Subtitle: principles and applications in radiation oncology
By: editors, Sang Hyun Cho and Sunil Krishnan
Series: Imaging in medical diagnosis and therapy; Imaging in medical diagnosis and therapy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; CRC Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781439878750
Subjects: Nanostructures; Methods; Neoplasms; Radiotherapy; Therapy; Diagnosis; Diagnostic use; Nanotechnology; Therapeutic use
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic principles of radiation therapy of cancers / Laurence Court and Radhe Mohan; title: Biological principles of radiosensitization / Vikas Bhardwaj ... [et al.]; title: Principles and applications of hyperthermia combined with radiation / Mark Hurwitz; title: Synthesis and surface modification of nanomaterials for tumor targeting / Glenn Goodrich; title: Safety concerns for nanomaterials in nanomedicinal applications / Qingxin Mu ... [et al.]; title: Imaging with nanoparticles / Amit Joshi; title: Optical microscopy of plasmonic nanoparticles / Varun P. Pattani and James Tunnell; title: X-ray fluorescence computed tomography imaging of nanoparticles / Bernard L. Jones and Sang Hyun Cho; title: Gold nanoparticle-mediated radiosensitization / Devika B. Chithrani; title: Quantification of gold nanoparticle-mediated radiation dose enhancement / Sang Hyun Cho and Bernard L. Jones; title: Semiconductor nanomaterials for radiotherapy / Ke Sheng; title: Radioactive gold nanoparticle for tumor therapy / Raghuraman Kannan, Kattesh V. Katti, and Cathy Cutler; title: Nanoparticles for the selective radioprotection of normal tissues / Jacob M. Berlin and Kathy A. Mason; title: Gold nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia in cancer therapy / Dev K. Chatterjee and Sunil Krishnan; title: Magnetic resonance thermometry imaging for gold nanoparticle-mediated thermal therapy / R. Jason Stafford and John D. Hazle; title: Modeling of plasmonic heat generation from gold nanoparticles / Francisco Reynoso and Sang Hyun Cho; title: Carbon nanotubes for thermal therapy / Ravi N. Singh ... [et al.]; title: Regulatory issues for clinical translations / J. Donald Payne; title: Clinical translations of nanotechnology : present and future outlook / Dev K. Chatterjee, Sang Hyun Cho, and Sunil Krishnan.