Controllability of depth dose distribution for neutron capture therapy at the Heavy Water Neutron Irradiation Facility of Kyoto University Research Reactor

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2338-2350

  Sakurai, Yoshinori ^a   Kobayashi, Tooru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dose distribution control; Neutron capture therapy; Neutron spectrum shifter; Thermal neutron filter; Variable neutron energy spectra

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIA; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); GAMMA RAYS; HEAVY WATER; NEUTRONS; RESEARCH REACTORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTION CONTROL; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON ENERGY; NEUTRON SPECTRA; THERMAL NEUTRONS;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

CADMIUM; DEUTERIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GAMMA RADIATION; IRRADIATION; NEUTRON; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE;

EID: 0036799302     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1509445     Document Type: Article

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