Improvement of dose calculation accuracy for BNCT dosimetry by the multi-voxel method in JCDS

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1045-1050

  Kumada, H ^a,b   Yamamoto, K ^a   Yamamoto, T ^b   Nakai, K ^b   Nakagawa, Y ^c   Kageji, T ^d   Matsumura, A ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

BNCT; Computational dosimetry; JCDS; MCNP; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY (BNCT); CLINICAL TRIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRON BEAMS;

DOSIMETRY;

BORON;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAERI COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FAST NEUTRONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WATER;

EID: 4143093849     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.05.067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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