Laser ablation for cancer: past, present and future

E Schena, P Saccomandi, Y Fong - Journal of functional biomaterials, 2017 - mdpi.com
Laser ablation (LA) is gaining acceptance for the treatment of tumors as an alternative to
surgical resection. This paper reviews the use of lasers for ablative and surgical …

Application of nanoparticles and nanomaterials in thermal ablation therapy of cancer

Z Ashikbayeva, D Tosi, D Balmassov, E Schena… - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the major health issues with increasing incidence worldwide. In spite of the
existing conventional cancer treatment techniques, the cases of cancer diagnosis and death …

Laser‐induced optothermal response of gold nanoparticles: From a physical viewpoint to cancer treatment application

S Asadi, L Bianchi, M De Landro… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gold nanoparticles (GNPs)‐based photothermal therapy (PTT) is a promising minimally
invasive thermal therapy for the treatment of focal malignancies. Although GNPs‐based PTT …

Engineered gold nanoparticles for photothermal cancer therapy and bacteria killing

A Gharatape, S Davaran, R Salehi, H Hamishehkar - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Over recent decades, one of the most important and complex problems facing our society is
the multi-drug resistance of human cancer cells and pathogens to most clinically approved …

Fiber Bragg grating sensors-based thermometry of gold nanorod-enhanced photothermal therapy in tumor model

L Bianchi, R Mooney, Y Cornejo, C Hyde… - IEEE Sensors …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes the use of femtosecond laser-written fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors
for internal temperature monitoring of tumors undergoing gold nanorod (AuNR)-mediated …

Gold nanorod-mediated near-infrared laser ablation: in vivo experiments on mice and theoretical analysis at different settings

R Mooney, E Schena, P Saccomandi… - International Journal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: The aim of the present study was the in vivo assessment of the effects of gold
nanorod (AuNR)-mediated laser ablation (LA) of flank xenograft tumours. We investigated …

Thermal analysis of laser irradiation-gold nanorod combinations at 808 nm, 940 nm, 975 nm and 1064 nm wavelengths in breast cancer model

L Bianchi, R Mooney, YR Cornejo… - International Journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background Photothermal therapy is currently under the spotlight to improve the efficacy of
minimally invasive thermal treatment of solid tumors. The interplay of several factors …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia-targeted gold nanorods for cancer photothermal therapy

Y Chen, X Bian, M Aliru, AA Deorukhkar… - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor hypoxia is a well-recognized driver of resistance to traditional cancer therapies such
as chemotherapy and radiation therapy. We describe development of a new nanoconstruct …

Thermometry based on computed tomography images during microwave ablation: Trials on ex vivo porcine liver

E Schena, F Giurazza, C Massaroni… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temperature knowledge may be beneficial to improve the outcomes of thermal treatments
for tumor ablation. Among several thermometric methods, contactless approaches based on …

Simulation of nanoparticle-mediated near-infrared thermal therapy using GATE

V Cuplov, F Pain, S Jan - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Application of nanotechnology for biomedicine in cancer therapy allows for direct delivery of
anticancer agents to tumors. An example of such therapies is the nanoparticle-mediated …