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Plasma Cancer Therapy

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics ((SSAOPP,volume 115))

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In this chapter, we first give an overview of modeling approaches in the literature that are relevant for studying plasma for cancer treatment, including both macro-scale and atomic/molecular scale models. Subsequently, we will present typical results obtained by these models to illustrate the type of information that can be obtained. Finally, we will conclude and discuss some future challenges for modeling plasma for cancer treatment.

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We acknowledge the financial support from the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO; grant numbers: 1200219 N and 11U5416N). The computational work was carried out using the Turing HPC infrastructure at the CalcUA core facility of the Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), a division of the Flemish Supercomputer Center VSC, funded by the Hercules Foundation, the Flemish Government (department EWI), and the UA. We are also very thankful to R. Cordeiro for the very interesting discussions.

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Bogaerts, A., Van der Paal, J., Heirman, P., Razzokov, J., Yusupov, M. (2020). Plasma and Plasma–Cell Interaction Simulations. In: Keidar, M. (eds) Plasma Cancer Therapy. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 115. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49966-2_7

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