External PIXE analysis of a handwritten Persian endowment deed belonging to the Timurid dynasty.

The external PIXE analysis yielded valuable information on the constituent elements of the paper, inks, and illumination of a handwritten document belonging to the Timurid dynasty (1485 A.D). The inks were found to be different in terms of their constituent matrix and trace elements.

Feasibility of breast cancer screening by PIXE analysis of hair.

To reveal the role of key elements present in the hair of breast cancer patients on cancer development, the levels of a number of elements in scalp hair samples of 82 people including healthy individuals, people suffering from benign breast disease, and breast cancer patients were measured by PIXE analysis. Pellets of hair samples were prepared and bombarded by 2.2 MeV proton beam of a 3-MV Van de Graaff accelerator.

Physical dose distribution due to multi-sliced kV X-ray beam in labeled tissue-like media: an experimental approach.

Radiotherapy remains a major modality of cancer therapy. Thanks to high flux and high brilliance of synchrotron-generated X-ray, laboratory research with planar microscopically thin X-ray beam promise exciting new opportunities for treatment of cancer. High tolerance of normal tissues at doses up to several hundred Gy in a single dose fraction and preferential damage of tumors at very high doses have been uniquely observed in animal models exposed to microbeams.