Some recent developments in treatment planning software and methodology for BNCT

Conference · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:435309

Nigg, D W; Wheeler, F J; Wessol, D E; Wemple, C A ^[1]; Babcock, R ^[2]; Capala, J ^[3]

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1. Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
2. Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT (United States)
3. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

Over the past several years/the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) has led the development of a unique, internationally-recognized set of software modules (BNCT rtpe) for computational dosimetry and treatment planning for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT). The computational capability represented by this software is essential to the proper administration of all forms of radiotherapy for cancer. Such software addresses the need to perform pretreatment computation and optimization of the radiation dose distribution in the target volume. This permits the achievement of the optimal therapeutic ratio (tumor dose relative to critical normal tissue dose) for each individual patient via a systematic procedure for specifying the appropriate irradiation parameters to be employed for a given treatment. These parameters include angle of therapy beam incidence, beam aperture and shape,and beam intensity as a function of position across the beam front. The INEL software is used for treatment planning in the current series of human glioma trials at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and has also been licensed for research and developmental purposes to several other BNCT research centers in the US and in Europe.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-94ID13223
• OSTI ID: 435309
• Report Number(s): INEL-96/00038; CONF-9609293-5; ON: DE97050835; TRN: 97:004348
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7. international symposium on neutron capture therapy for cancer, Zurich (Switzerland), 4-7 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
BASIC STUDIES
56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
APPLIED STUDIES
99 MATHEMATICS
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LAW
MISCELLANEOUS
NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY
DEPTH DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
B CODES
GLIOMAS
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NEUTRON DOSIMETRY
RADIOTHERAPY
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TUMOR CELLS
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
ANIMAL TISSUES
ALGORITHMS
IMAGES
IMAGE PROCESSING
IRRADIATION