Scope of Nanotechnology in Radiation Treatment Planning

In this paper an attempt has been made to study some of the elements of mathematical modeling in solid tumor growth. We present simple deterministic mathematical models used to describe tumor growth. Radiation therapy can be made very effective through the use of nanoscale particles such as gold nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes and magnetic nanoparticles. Development of a model using all the necessary biological assumption has been illustrated through an example. A large number of drug delivery systems have been developed over the years to overcome the challenges in cancer treatment and hence improve the right balance between effectiveness and toxicity. Finally we present various aspects of our methods and their results .The results demonstrate that the use of nanoscale particles in radiation treatment planning holds a lot of potential to improve the efficiency of the treatment.