Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a cancer treatment still in development that is considered with increasing interest. It consists in irradiating with thermal or epithermal neutrons patients to whom a specific tumor-seeking Boron carrier has been administrated. The high cross section of the 10B(n, α)7Li reaction for thermal neutrons and the high radiobiological effectiveness are exploited in order to damage the tumour cells without afflicting the surrounding healthy tissues.
Dose distributions in phantoms with different dimensions exposed to BNCT epithermal neutron beam: measurements and calculations / G. Bartesaghi, J. Burian, M. Carrara, G. Gambarini, M. Marek, A. Negri, L. Viererbl - In: Nuclear Science Symposium - Medical Imaging Conference, Conference Record / [a cura di] P. Sellin. - [s.l] : IEEE, 2008. - ISBN 978-1-4244-2715-4. - pp. 1459-1461 (( convegno Nuclear Science Symposium - Medical Imaging Conference tenutosi a Dresden nel 2008 [10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774690].
Dose distributions in phantoms with different dimensions exposed to BNCT epithermal neutron beam: measurements and calculations
G. BartesaghiPrimo
;M. Carrara;G. Gambarini;A. NegriPenultimo
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2008
Abstract
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a cancer treatment still in development that is considered with increasing interest. It consists in irradiating with thermal or epithermal neutrons patients to whom a specific tumor-seeking Boron carrier has been administrated. The high cross section of the 10B(n, α)7Li reaction for thermal neutrons and the high radiobiological effectiveness are exploited in order to damage the tumour cells without afflicting the surrounding healthy tissues.
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