Applicability of the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction to AB-BNCT skin and deep tumor treatment

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1684-1687

  Capoulat, M E ^a,b,c   Minsky, D M ^a,b,c   Kreiner, A J ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

9Be(d,n)10B reaction; Accelerator based BNCT; Beam shaping assembly; Brain tumor treatment; Monte carlo simulations; Skin tumor treatment

Indexed keywords

9BE(D,N)10B REACTION; ACCELERATOR-BASED BNCT; BEAM-SHAPING-ASSEMBLY; BRAIN TUMOR TREATMENT; MONTE-CARLO-SIMULATIONS; SKIN TUMOR TREATMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEUTERIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

TUMORS;

BERYLLIUM; BORON 10; DEUTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; SKIN TUMOR; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

BERYLLIUM; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80055084257     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.02.015     Document Type: Article

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