Microdosimetric intercomparison of BNCT beams at BNL and MIT

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2131-2139

  Burmeister, Jay ^a   Riley, Kent ^b   Coderre, Jeffrey A ^b   Harling, Otto K ^b   Ma, Ruimei ^c   Wielopolski, Lucian ^d   Kota, Chandrasekhar ^e   Maughan, Richard L ^e  

^a HARPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BNCT; Epithermal neutrons; Microdosimetry

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; RESEARCH REACTORS;

BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; BNCT; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON BEAMS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MICRO-DOSIMETRY; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE;

CLINICAL RESEARCH;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSIMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MICRODENSITOMETRY; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041888203     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1589612     Document Type: Article

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