Atomic Radiation in Nuclear Decay

Lee, Boon; Kibedi, Tibor; Stuchbery, Andrew; Robertson, Kalman

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Atomic Radiation in Nuclear Decay

Date

2012

Authors

Lee, Boon

Kibedi, Tibor

Stuchbery, Andrew

Robertson, Kalman

Publisher

EPJ Web of Conferences

Abstract

Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay offer a unique tool to kill cancer cells at the scale of a DNA molecule. Over the last forty years many aspects of this promising therapeutic tool have been explored, however it is still not in the phase of large s