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Importance of electric fields from ionized nanoparticles for radiation therapy

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A model is presented in which electric fields from ionized particles in a biological tissue enhance the biological effect of ionizing radiation. The model is based on the data on enhancing the gamma radiation effect on biological cells by static electric fields and on estimates of the typical intensities of electric fields from ionized nanoparticles in a biological tissue.

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Original Russian Text © M.L. Shmatov, 2017, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2017.

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Shmatov, M.L. Importance of electric fields from ionized nanoparticles for radiation therapy. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 14, 533–536 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477117030153

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