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Courtney Knaup
Researcher at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Publications - 28
Citations - 217
Courtney Knaup is an academic researcher from University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The author has contributed to research in topics: Brachytherapy & Prostate brachytherapy. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 28 publications receiving 166 citations.
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Gold nanoparticle-based brachytherapy enhancement in choroidal melanoma using a full Monte Carlo model of the human eye
Somayeh Asadi,Mehdi Vaez-zadeh,S. Farhad Masoudi,Faezeh Rahmani,Courtney Knaup,Ali S. Meigooni +5 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that the dose to the tumor in an eyeball implanted with COMS plaque increases with increasing GNPs concentration inside the target, and the required irradiation time for the tumors in the eye is decreased by adding the GNPs prior to treatment.
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Physical, dosimetric and clinical aspects and delivery systems in neutron capture therapy
TL;DR: In BNCT, the only two delivery agents which are presently applied in clinical trials are BPA and BSH, but other delivery systems are being developed for more effective treatment in NCT.
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Effect of tissue composition on dose distribution in brachytherapy with various photon emitting sources.
TL;DR: The ignorance of soft tissue characteristics (density, composition, etc.) by treatment planning systems incorporates a significant error in dose delivery to the patient in brachytherapy with photon sources.
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Evaluation of the accuracy of various dose calculation algorithms of a commercial treatment planning system in the presence of hip prosthesis and comparison with Monte Carlo
TL;DR: Hip prosthesis creates a considerable disturbance in dose distribution which cannot be predicted accurately by the FFT convolution, CC, and superposition algorithms, and it is recommended to use of MC-based TPS for the treatment fields including the hip prosthesis.
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Dose enhancement by various nanoparticles in prostate brachytherapy
TL;DR: Dose enhancement factors (DEFs) were calculated for Fe2O3, Ag, Gd, Pt and Au nanoparticles with concentrations of 7, 18 and 30 mg/ml and no general trend in DEF with increasing atomic number, or concentration of nanoparticles was observed.