A Preliminary Investigation of Radiation-Sensitive Ultrasound Contrast Agents for Photon Dosimetry

Autor: Bram Carlier, Sophie V. Heymans, Sjoerd Nooijens, Gonzalo Collado-Lara, Yosra Toumia, Laurence Delombaerde, Gaio Paradossi, Jan D’hooge, Koen Van Den Abeele, Edmond Sterpin, Uwe Himmelreich

Publikováno v: Pharmaceuticals, Vol 17, Iss 5, p 629 (2024)

Radiotherapy treatment plans have become highly conformal, posing additional constraints on the accuracy of treatment delivery. Here, we explore the use of radiation-sensitive ultrasound contrast agents (superheated phase-change nanodroplets) as dosi

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Spatiotemporal Distribution of Nanodroplet Vaporization in a Proton Beam Using Real-Time Ultrasound Imaging for Range Verification

Autor: Sophie V. Heymans, Gaio Paradossi, Verya Daeichin, Edmond Sterpin, Gonzalo Collado-Lara, Yosra Toumia, Hendrik J. Vos, Martin D. Verweij, Nico de Jong, Jan D'hooge, Koen Van Den Abeele, Bram Carlier, Marta Rovituso

Publikováno v: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 48, no.1, p. 149-156 (2022)
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 48(1), 149-156. Elsevier Inc.
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 48(1)

The potential of proton therapy to improve the conformity of the delivered dose to the tumor volume is currently limited by range uncertainties. Injectable superheated nanodroplets have recently been proposed for ultrasound-based in vivo range verifi

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https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/258850

PCR Amplified Dnazyme-Amplicons for Generic Solid-Phase Antimicrobial Resistence Screening

Autor: Jeroen Lammertyn, Devin Daems, Saba Safdar, Bram Carlier, Bernd Peeters, Dragana Spasic

Publikováno v: 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXXIII).

Fiber optic surface plasmon resonance (FO-SPR) has shown its potential for the detection of nucleic acids and more recently the technology has been combined with catalytic active strands such as DNAzymes. In this work, an innovative, generic solid-ph

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https://doi.org/10.1109/transducers.2019.8808484

Modulating ultrasound contrast generation from injectable nanodroplets for proton range verification by varying the degree of superheat

Autor: Emiliano D'Agostino, Alexander Bertrand, Uwe Himmelreich, Gaio Paradossi, Yosra Toumia, Koen Van Den Abeele, Bram Carlier, Sjoerd Nooijens, Marcus Ingram, Edmond Sterpin, Andrea Giammanco, Sophie V. Heymans, Wouter Crijns, Jan D'hooge

Publikováno v: Medical Physics, (2021)

Purpose: Despite the physical benefits of protons over conventional photon radiation in cancer treatment, range uncertainties impede the ability to harness the full potential of proton therapy. While monitoring the proton range in vivo could reduce t

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