A dosimetric study on the use of bolus materials for treatment of superficial tumors with BNCT

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 787-791

  Seppälä, Tiina ^a,b,e   Collan, Juhani ^c   Auterinen, Iiro ^d   Serén, Tom ^d   Salli, Eero ^b   Kotiluoto, Petri ^d   Kortesniemi, Mika ^a,b   Van Leemput, Koen ^b   Kankaanranta, Leena ^c   Joensuu, Heikki ^c   Savolainen, Sauli ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF HELSINKI AND UUSIMAA   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^e Boneca Corporation   (Finland)

Author keywords

BNCT; Bolus; Dosimetry; Epithermal neutrons; Paraffin; Water gel

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON ACTIVATION; PLANNING TARGET VOLUME (PTV);

BORON; GAMMA RAYS; GELS; IRRADIATION; NEUTRON BEAMS; PARAFFINS; SKIN; TUMORS;

DOSIMETRY;

GOLD; MANGANESE; PARAFFIN; WATER;

CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; GEL; IRRADIATION; MATERIALS; NEUTRON; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; GELS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PARAFFIN; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 4143141002     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.05.054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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