Topic: Hyperthermia Efficacy of Nanoparticles for Cancer
Speaker: Dr. Edwin R. Fuller, Jr.
President of American Ceramics Society
Guest Scientist, NIST, USA
Time: 9:30am-10:30am, Tues, April 13, 2010
Venue: Room 468, Lee Hsun Building
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Hyperthermia Efficacy of Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy
Edwin R. Fuller, Jr.
Guest Scientist
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899
<edwin.fuller@comcast.net>
Optical activation of gold-nanoshell particles with laser radiation in the near-infrared spectrum provides a means to induce hyperthermia in a tumor while leaving the surrounding healthy tissue intact. The procedure entails two processes: (i) heating of the nanoshells via a plasmon resonance phenomenon and (ii) diffusion of the heat from the particles into the surrounding tissue. Tumor-scale finite-element modeling of thermal ablation efficacy requires effective properties of tissue containing nanoparticles. Little is know about these effective properties. Mesoscale simulations are used to computationally measure effective system properties and responses of nanoshell particle ensembles.