A characterisation of the radiosensitising effects of gold nanoparticles
Radiotherapy has been used for decades in the treatment of cancer however; the efficacy of radiotherapy is limited by the damage it causes to normal tissue. High Z materials have previously been used as contrast agents in imaging due to their favourable mass attenuation coefficients in comparison to...
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Queen's University Belfast
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677841 |