Prompt gamma tomography during BNCT - A feasibility study

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-10

  Af Rosenschöld, Per Munck ^a   Minarik, David ^a   Östlund, Carl ^a   Ljungberg, Michael ^a   Ceberg, Crister ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc); Dosimetry concepts and apparatus; Neutron sources

Indexed keywords

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; DOSIMETRY MEASUREMENT; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON BEAMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; RADIOBIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; THERMAL NEUTRON FLUENCES; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION;

BORON; CESIUM; DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON SOURCES; PATIENT TREATMENT; PLANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33748929494     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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