Dose planning with comparison to in vivo dosimetry for epithermal neutron irradiation of the dog brain

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2629-2640

  Seppälä, Tiina ^a,b,c   Auterinen, Iiro ^c   Aschan, Carita ^d   Serén, Tom ^c   Benczik, Judit ^a   Snellman, Marjatta ^a   Huiskamp, René ^e   Abo Ramadan, Usama ^a   Kankaanranta, Leena ^b   Joensuu, Heikki ^b   Savolainen, Sauli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^e NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY GROUP NRG   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boron neutron capture therapy; Dose planning; Dose verification; Dosimetry; Epithermal neutrons

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRONS; TISSUE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; DOSE PLANNING; DOSE VERIFICATION; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON BEAMS; THERMAL NEUTRON FLUENCES; THERMOLUMINESCENT DETECTORS;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOG; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOMA; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOBIOLOGY; SAFETY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUTRON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABIES; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

ANIMALS; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BRAIN; DOGS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUTRONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0036853337     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1517048     Document Type: Article

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