Abstract:
:The use of epithermal neutron beam in clinical trials of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for patients with malignant brain tumors had been carried out for half a decade at the Brookhaven's Medical Reactor. The decision to permanently close this reactor in 2000 cut short the efforts to implement a new conceptual design to optimize this beam in preparation for use with possible new BNCT protocols. Details of the conceptual design to produce a highly intensified and focused neutron beam with less gamma and neutron contamination in tissues are presented here for their potential applicability to other reactor facilities. Neutron-photon coupled Monte Carlo calculations were used to predict the flux, current, heating, and absorbed dose produced by the proposed design. The results were benchmarked by the dose rate and flux measurements taken at the facility then in use.
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Health Physjournal_title
Health physicsauthors
Hu JP,Reciniello RN,Holden NEsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-05-01 00:00:00pages
S103-S109eissn
0017-9078issn
1538-5159pii
00004032-200405002-00013journal_volume
86 Suppl 2pub_type
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