NARILIS radiobiology research on the front cover of Medical Physics

NARILIS radiobiology research on the front cover of Medical Physics

The THERAPLUS project aims at taking advantage of novel nanoscale materials to enhance the performance of current cancer radiation therapies. This project is supported by the Walloon Region and joins the expertise from both the Laboratory of Analysis by Nuclear Reaction (Prof. Stéphane Lucas and Prof. Anne-Catherine Heuskin) and the Laboratory of Cellular Biology (Prof. Carine Michiels) of the UNamur.

THERAPLUS latest publication focused on the radiosensitizing effects of metallic nanoparticles for proton irradiation. One of the figures of their article “Metallic nanoparticles irradiated by low energy protons for radiation therapy” by Heuskin et al., 2017 was selected to illustrate the cover of the August issue of Medical Physics.

The illustration shows the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation geometry used to assess the dose-enhancing effect of metal nanoparticles from low energy (1.4 or 4.0 MeV) protons.