Feasibility of boron neutron capture therapy for malignant spinal tumors

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

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

  Nakai, Kei ^a   Kumada, Hiroaki ^b   Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Tsurubuchi, Takao ^a   Zaboronok, Alexander ^a   Matsumura, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

BNCT; Feasible; JCDS; Spinal tumor

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIRECTION; BNCT; BORON CONCENTRATIONS; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS; FEASIBLE; JCDS; MYELOPATHY; NEURONAL DAMAGE; PET IMAGING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SPINAL CORDS; SPINAL TUMOR; SPINAL TUMORS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TUMOR DOSE; TUMOR PATIENT; VIRTUAL MODELS;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

TUMORS;

4 BORONOPHENYLALANINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR MODEL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BORON COMPOUNDS; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHENYLALANINE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649406054     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.03.089     Document Type: Article

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