A method for fast evaluation of neutron spectra for BNCT based on in-phantom figure-of-merit calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 381-386

  Martín, Guido ^a  

^a CENTRO DE APLICACIONES TECNOLÓGICAS Y DESARROLLO NUCLEAR CEADEN   (Cuba)

Author keywords

BNCT; Brain tumors; Monte Carlo transport calculations

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; NEUTRON SOURCES; PHANTOMS; TUMORS;

ACCELERATOR-BASED NEUTRON SOURCES; BNCT; BRAIN TUMORS; DEEP-SEATED TUMORS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMPORTANCE FUNCTIONS; MONO-ENERGETIC NEUTRONS; TRANSPORT CALCULATION;

NEUTRONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALCULATION; EVALUATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037340927     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1544677     Document Type: Article

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