Design and construction of shoulder recesses into the beam aperture shields for improved patient positioning at the FiR 1 BNCT facility

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 799-803

  Auterinen, I ^a   Kotiluoto, P ^a   Hippelainen E ^b   Kortesniemi, M ^b,c   Seppala T ^b   Seren T ^a   Mannila, V ^c   Poyry P ^c   Kankaanranta, L ^d   Collan, J ^d   Kouri, M ^d   Joensuu, H ^d   Savolainen, S ^b,c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Boneca Corporation   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

BNCT; Body dose; BOMAB; MCNP; Patient positioning; Tritium contamination

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; NEUTRON BEAMS; TRITIUM; TUMORS;

BEAM APERTURE; SHOULDER RECESSES;

PATIENT MONITORING;

LITHIUM; TRITIUM;

ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SHIELD;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINLAND; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSTURE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4143088292     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.05.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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