Distribution modeling of nanoparticles for brachytherapy of human eye tumor

EJNMMI Physics

Table 3 The values of DEF calculated in different structures of the eye including a tumor loaded with 50 nm GNPs with concentrations of 7, 15, and 30 mg/g for homogeneous and heterogeneous models. The last row presents the average DEFs calculated in the nuclei of the tumor

Eye structure	7 mg/g		15 mg/g		30 mg/g
Eye structure	Homogeneous	Heterogeneous	Homogeneous	Heterogeneous	Homogeneous	Heterogeneous
Vitreous	0.967 ± 0.0008	0.942 ± 0.0008	0.967 ± 0.0008	0.888 ± 0.0008	0.932 ± 0.0008	0.802 ± 0.0007
Aqueous	0.971 ± 0.004	0.952 ± 0.004	0.977 ± 0.004	0.908 ± 0.004	0.953 ± 0.004	0.832 ± 0.004
Sclera	0.996 ± 0.001	0.994 ± 0.001	0.997 ± 0.001	0.986 ± 0.001	0.994 ± 0.001	0.973 ± 0.001
Cornea	0.989 ± 0.008	0.959 ± 0.008	0.988 ± 0.008	0.917 ± 0.008	0.996 ± 0.008	0.859 ± 0.007
Iris	0.975 ± 0.011	0.968 ± 0.011	0.991 ± 0.011	0.914 ± 0.010	0.973 ± 0.010	0.834 ± 0.009
Lens	0.962 ± 0.007	0.943 ± 0.007	0.975 ± 0.007	0.887 ± 0.007	0.943 ± 0.007	0.797 ± 0.006
Tumor	1.206 ± 0.007	2.623 ± 0.015	1.246 ± 0.008	4.268 ± 0.023	1.583 ± 0.009	6.813 ± 0.035