Publications by authors named "Agostino Tartari"
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- Radiation therapy is commonly used to treat tumors, but challenges like recurrence and radioresistance limit survival rates for some cancer patients.
- The study investigates the effects of very high dose rate radiation using a special pulsed plasma device on two radioresistant melanoma cell lines, SK-Mel28 and A375.
- Results indicate that this new method is more effective in damaging melanoma cells compared to traditional X-ray treatments, suggesting potential for improved clinical outcomes in the future.
The recent development of new gamma imagers based on scintillation array with high spatial resolution, has strongly improved the possibility of detecting sub-centimeter cancer in Scintimammography. However, Compton scattering contamination remains the main drawback since it limits the sensitivity of tumor detection. Principal component image analysis (PCA), recently introduced in scintimam nographic imaging, is a data reduction technique able to represent the radiation emitted from chest, breast healthy and damaged tissues as separated images.
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