Verification of the accuracy of BNCT treatment planning system THORplan

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 67, Issue 7-8 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Li, H S ^a   Liu, Y W H ^a   Lee, C Y ^a   Lin, T Y ^b   Hsu, F Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BNCT; Snyder phantom; THORplan; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BNCT; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON; INTERACTIVE DATA LANGUAGES; SNYDER PHANTOM; THERMAL-NEUTRON FLUX; THORPLAN; TISSUE INTERFACE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; NEUTRON FLUX; NEUTRON SOURCES;

NEUTRON BEAMS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TAIWAN;

EID: 67649397356     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.03.029     Document Type: Article

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