A Platform to Monitor Tumor Cellular and Vascular Response to Radiation Therapy by Optical Coherence Tomography and Fluorescence Microscopy in vivo

Radiotherapy plays a significant role in cancer treatment, and is thought to be curative by mainly killing tumor cells through damage to their genetic material. However, recent findings indicate that the tumor’s vascular blood supply is also a major determinant of radiation response. The goals of...

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Main Author: Leung, Michael Ka Kit
Other Authors: Vitkin, Alex
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25758