Development of a Methodology and Ionizing Radiation Device that Uses Metallic Nanoparticles for the Detection and Simultaneous Treatment of Cancer

R. FIGUEROA; M. VALENTE

San Francisco

Conferencia; NanoWorld; 2018

NanoWorld

A new methodology for the detection and simultaneous treatment of tumors is presented. The method is based on a 3Dscanning by means of convergent X-ray beam irradiating phantom/patient containing targets with biomarker of heavy atomicnumber nanoparticles in certain concentration levels previously studied by other authors. Confocal detection of the point scanningallows reconstruction of a 3D image aimed at mapping tumor cells, while a second convergent beam scanning slightly out of phaseoperates in treatment mode to eliminate the tumor. It is proposed that simultaneity between target location and treatment irradiationmay avoid the mismatches between actual and practical target. Monte Carlo simulations carried out adapting subroutines in FLUKAand PENELOPE main codes demonstrated the feasible of the proposed method. Current efforts are devoted to design and built alaboratory prototype to validate the proposed method.