Unifying dose specification between clinical BNCT centers in the Americas
- Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 138 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
A dosimetry intercomparison between the boron neutron capture therapy groups of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica (CNEA), Argentina was performed to enable combined analyses of NCT patient data between the different centers. In-air and dose versus depth measurements in a rectangular water phantom were performed at the hyperthermal neutron beam facility of the RA-6 reactor, Bariloche. Calculated dose profiles from the CNEA treatment planning system NCTPlan that were calibrated against in-house measurements required normalizations of 1.0 (thermal neutrons), 1.13 (photons), and 0.74 (fast neutrons) to match the dosimetry of MIT.
- OSTI ID:
- 21120639
- Journal Information:
- Medical Physics, Vol. 35, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1118/1.2884856; (c) 2008 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-2405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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