Table of Contents:
  • Basic principles of radiation therapy of cancers / Laurence Court and Radhe Mohan
  • Biological principles of radiosensitization / Vikas Bhardwaj ... [et al.]
  • Principles and applications of hyperthermia combined with radiation / Mark Hurwitz
  • Synthesis and surface modification of nanomaterials for tumor targeting / Glenn Goodrich
  • Safety concerns for nanomaterials in nanomedicinal applications / Qingxin Mu ... [et al.]
  • Imaging with nanoparticles / Amit Joshi
  • Optical microscopy of plasmonic nanoparticles / Varun P. Pattani and James Tunnell
  • X-ray fluorescence computed tomography imaging of nanoparticles / Bernard L. Jones and Sang Hyun Cho
  • Gold nanoparticle-mediated radiosensitization / Devika B. Chithrani
  • Quantification of gold nanoparticle-mediated radiation dose enhancement / Sang Hyun Cho and Bernard L. Jones
  • Semiconductor nanomaterials for radiotherapy / Ke Sheng
  • Radioactive gold nanoparticle for tumor therapy / Raghuraman Kannan, Kattesh V. Katti, and Cathy Cutler
  • Nanoparticles for the selective radioprotection of normal tissues / Jacob M. Berlin and Kathy A. Mason
  • Gold nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia in cancer therapy / Dev K. Chatterjee and Sunil Krishnan
  • Magnetic resonance thermometry imaging for gold nanoparticle-mediated thermal therapy / R. Jason Stafford and John D. Hazle
  • Modeling of plasmonic heat generation from gold nanoparticles / Francisco Reynoso and Sang Hyun Cho
  • Carbon nanotubes for thermal therapy / Ravi N. Singh ... [et al.]
  • Regulatory issues for clinical translations / J. Donald Payne
  • Clinical translations of nanotechnology : present and future outlook / Dev K. Chatterjee, Sang Hyun Cho, and Sunil Krishnan.