Gold nanoparticles and their alternatives for radiation therapy enhancement

DR Cooper, D Bekah, JL Nadeau - Frontiers in chemistry, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy is one of the most commonly used treatments for cancer. The dose of
delivered ionizing radiation can be amplified by the presence of high-Z materials via an …

Shining emitter in a stable host: design of halide perovskite scintillators for X-ray imaging from commercial concept

F Cao, D Yu, W Ma, X Xu, B Cai, YM Yang, S Liu… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Halide perovskite (HP) nanocrystals (NCs) have recently shown great potential for X-ray
detection and imaging. However, the practical application still has a long way to go with …

Molecular and nanoscale sensors for detecting ionizing radiation in radiotherapy

K Pushpavanam, E Narayanan, K Rege - ChemNanoMat, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ever since the discovery of radioactivity, beneficial use of ionizing radiation has been
pursued for the betterment of human health. In particular, fractionated radiotherapy is …

Irradiation stability and cytotoxicity of gold nanoparticles for radiotherapy

XD Zhang, ML Guo, HY Wu, YM Sun… - International journal …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Gold nanoparticles are promising as a kind of novel radiosensitizer in radiotherapy. If gold
nanoparticles are shown to have good irradiation stability and biocompatibility, they would …

Ultrafast emission from colloidal nanocrystals under pulsed X-ray excitation

RM Turtos, S Gundacker, A Polovitsyn… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast timing has emerged as a critical requirement for radiation detection in medical and high
energy physics, motivating the search for scintillator materials with high light yield and fast …

Bright and durable scintillation from colloidal quantum shells

B Guzelturk, BT Diroll, JP Cassidy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient, fast, and robust scintillators for ionizing radiation detection are crucial in various
fields, including medical diagnostics, defense, and particle physics. However, traditional …

Robust CsPbBr3 and Zn-Cd-S quantum dots co-doped nano-glass composites with broadly tunable emissions

Z Sui, Y Sun, Y Jing, C Wang, Y Zhu, S Qian… - Journal of the European …, 2023 - Elsevier
We report the first study on in-situ co-growth of biphasic CsPbBr 3 and Zn-Cd-S quantum
dots (QDs) in borosilicate glass, and provide explicitly evidence of their morphology and …

Effect of concentration and shell thickness on the optical behavior of aqueous CdTe/ZnSe core/shell quantum dots (QDs) exposed to ionizing radiation

F Farahmandzadeh, M Molaei, H Alehdaghi… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this work CdTe/ZnSe core/shell quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized via a
simple, rapid and room temperature photochemical approach. Optical properties of aqueous …

Monitoring the impact of ionizing radiation on CdSe/ZnS semiconductor quantum dot photoluminescence

MJ Murray, MM Jones, DR Peterman… - Radiation Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The impact of 60 Co gamma irradiation on the photoluminescent properties of surface
passivated CdSe/ZnS semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) in toluene are investigated. Two …

Investigation of optical and structural properties of aqueous CdS quantum dots under gamma irradiation

H Alehdaghi, E Assar, B Azadegan, J Baedi… - Radiation Physics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The optical properties of aqueous CdS quantum Dots (QDs) under gamma irradiation were
systemically studied with dose of 0–20 kGy. The QDs synthesized by microwave assisted …