Towards Radiotherapy Enhancement and Real Time Tumor Radiation Dosimetry Through 3D Imaging of Gold Nanoparticles Using XFCT

Optimal X-ray filters for EDXRF analysis

“…Our motivation to optimize EDXRF measurements is based on the project SATBOT which consists of a CdTe based, robotized, X-ray spectro-imaging camera [10] that assists gold nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy [11]. It aims to conduct near real-time dosimetry [12], quantification of administered nanoparticles [12], and 3D-XRF computed tomography [13]. Because of this background, the presented optimization framework is verified with measured data for Z TE = 79 (Au) in a water phantom with an effective atomic number of Z T ≈ 7.…”