Conceptual design of a personalized radiation therapy patch for skin cancer

Conceptual design of a personalized radiation therapy patch for skin cancer

Radiation therapy is a valuable option for treatment of skin cancer. In order to deliver the radiation dose to the superficial skin tumor, an X-ray source, electron beam radiation therapy or a radioisotope is applied. The effectiveness of these procedures is well established in the literature. Findi...

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Main Authors: Pashazadeh Ali, Castro Nathan, Morganti Elena, Hutmacher Dietmar, Lagotzki Sinja, Boese Axel, Friebe Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-09-01
Series:Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
Subjects:
superficial radiation therapy
beta particles
radioactive scaffold
radioactive patch
planar beta radiation source
skin cancer
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2018-0146

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https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2018-0146

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