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Natural Polymer-based Hydrogels as Prospective Tissue Equivalent Materials for Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry by Prabhu, Srilakshmi (author);Bharadwaj, Dhanya Y. (author);Podder, Rachaita (author);Bubbly, S. G. (author);Gudennavar, S. B. (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Natural polymer-based hydrogels have been extensively employed in tissue engineering and biomedical applications, owing to their biodegradability and biocompatibility. In the present work, we have investigated the efficacy of hydrogels such as agarose, hyaluronan, gelatin, carrageenan, chitosan, sodium alginate and collagen as tissue equivalent materials with respect to photon and charged particle (electron, proton and alpha particle) interactions, for use in radiation therapy and dosimetry. Tissue equivalence has been investigated by computing photon mass energy absorption coefficient (μ/ρ), kinetic energy released per unit mass (KERMA), equivalent atomic number (Z) and energy absorption build-up factors (EABF) relative to human tissues (soft tissue, cortical bone, skeletal muscle, breast tissue, lung tissue, adipose tissue, skin tissue, brain) in the energy range of 0.015-15 MeV. Ratio of effective atomic numbers (Z) have been examined for tissue-equivalence in the energy range of 10 keV-1 GeV for charged particle interactions. Analysis using standard theoretical formulations revealed that all the selected natural polymers can serve as good tissue equivalent materials with respec

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Author
Prabhu, Srilakshmi (author);Bharadwaj, Dhanya Y. (author);Podder, Rachaita (author);Bubbly, S. G. (author);Gudennavar, S. B. (author)
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2021
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction

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