Conveners
S13 Biophysics and Medical Physics
- Gordana Lastovicka-Medin (University of Montenegro)
S13 Biophysics and Medical Physics
- Jugoslav Karamarković ()
Several motors driving living cell alive have been recognized: electric motors, light motors, chemical motors, thermal motors, mechanical motors, etc. etc. Recently, the existence a new type of electro-mechanical motor has been recognized in cell membranes: bioflexoelectricity.
Phenomenon of bioflexoelectricity has been postulated, discovered, and investigated by us in the last 45 years....
A project for the establishment of an international intergovernmental scientific organization in the region of South East Europe (European Institute for Sustainable Technologies - SEEIIST) is under way. The research infrastructure will include a powerful next generation accelerator that will provide proton and ion beams for tumor treatment and biomedical research. The center will comprise...
Study of the effect of inorganic nanoparticles on the human cells has been intensified due to emerging applications of such nanoparticles in diagnostics, drug delivery, medical therapy, etc [1]. Several classes of nanoparticles have been proposed for use in cancer therapy as they were demonstrated to decrease cancer cells viability in the scientific studies. Nanoparticles that have so called...
Albania is a small country in the western Balkans with a population of 2.8 million. The health system has undergone major transformations especially in the last 10 years especially with the involvement of the private sector in health services. Despite the improvements made, the global pandemic COVID-19 19 found the Albanian health system unprepared, highlighting the problems and its...
The project examines the current state-of-the-art and use of radiation therapy in treatment patients with cancer. Through it different treatments are explained with special emphasis on those currently accessible in Montenegro and South - Eastern Europe (SEE). Both, advantages and disadvantages of each kind of treatment were considered. Especially, detailed analysis of hadron therapy (HT) is...
In this contribution we will review a wide variety of LGAD applications ranging from the timing measurements for HL-LHC (HGTD for ATLAS and MIP Timing detector for CMS) to reaction time detector for experiments utilizing proton and pion beams with the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES), at GSI Darmstadt, Germany, and to beam structure monitoring for medical applications...
Monte Carlo algorithms often require large computing resources, primarily in the form of processing time. Knowledge of the underlying principles governing the simulated problem under specific circumstances allows the use of certain variance reduction methods. This work introduces a novel approach to variance reduction based on the partial axial symmetry of the clinical accelerator.
The...
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a diverse class of short proteins, that are a key element of the nonspecific innate immunity in most organisms, displaying a wide range of antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral and even anticancer effects. Lately, AMPs have attracted great research interest in the context of strategies to combat multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. AMPs come in nature in...
The flattening filter is a piece of metal with conical shaped mounted within the treatment head of a linear accelerator, used to produce a flat, uniform beam of X-rays from the forward-peaked distribution exiting the target. They have been used since the introduction of the linac in the 1950’s, however, there are still several unresolved issues surrounding their use. The photon scatter and...
Many radionuclides have a history as a source for brachytherapy, but today only a few are commonly used. They are characterized by the rate at which their strength decays (half-life), by how much radioactivity can be obtained for a given mass of the radioactive source (specific activity) and by the energies and types of the radiation particles that are emitted from the source (energy spectrum)...
