Critical review, with an optimistic outlook, on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT)

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 2-11

  Moss, Raymond L ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerators; BNCT; Boron compounds; Clinical trials

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

BNCT; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL REVIEW; EVIDENCE-BASED; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; RECURRENT GLIOMAS; TREATMENT MODALITY;

BORON;

4 BORONOPHENYLALANINE; BOROCAPTATE; LIPOSOME; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FINLAND; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT MENINGIOMA; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICES; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FORECASTING; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84901832877     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2013.11.109     Document Type: Article

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