Quantitative Ultrasound Characterization of Tumor Cell Death: Ultrasound-Stimulated Microbubbles for Radiation Enhancement

Hyunjung Christina Kim; Azza Al-Mahrouki; Alborz Gorjizadeh; Ali Sadeghi-Naini; Raffi Karshafian; Gregory J. Czarnota

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102343

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Quantitative Ultrasound Characterization of Tumor Cell Death: Ultrasound-Stimulated Microbubbles for Radiation Enhancement

Hyunjung Christina Kim,

Affiliations Department of Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Azza Al-Mahrouki,

Affiliations Department of Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Alborz Gorjizadeh,

Affiliation Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ali Sadeghi-Naini,

Affiliations Department of Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Raffi Karshafian,

Affiliation Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Gregory J. Czarnota

* E-mail: gregory.czarnota@sunnybrook.ca

Affiliations Department of Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Quantitative Ultrasound Characterization of Tumor Cell Death: Ultrasound-Stimulated Microbubbles for Radiation Enhancement

Hyunjung Christina Kim,
Azza Al-Mahrouki,
Alborz Gorjizadeh,
Ali Sadeghi-Naini,
Raffi Karshafian,
Gregory J. Czarnota

Published: July 22, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102343

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