Investigation of irradiation conditions for recurrent breast cancer in JRR-4

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1882-1884

  Horiguchi, H ^a   Nakamura, T ^a   Kumada, H ^b   Yanagie, H ^c,d   Suzuki, M ^e   Sagawa, H ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Graduate School of Tokyo   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boron neutron capture therapy; JRR 4; Recurrent breast cancer; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTATIONAL DOSIMETRY; EQUIVALENT DOSE; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; IRRADIATION TIME; ISOTROPIC SCATTERING; JRR-4; OPTIMAL IRRADIATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; RECURRENT BREAST CANCER; RECURRENT CANCER; THERMAL NEUTRON BEAMS; THERMAL NEUTRONS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION;

NEUTRON IRRADIATION;

BORON;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NEUTRON THERAPY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECURRENT CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL;

EID: 80055067573     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.03.036     Document Type: Article

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