Clinical treatment planning of subjects undergoing boron neutron capture therapy
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA (United States); and others
The sequence of treatment planning operations for clinical boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) in the New England Deaconess Hospital-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) BNCT program consists of multiple computational and experimental steps. The course of action for each subject has been categorized into several steps, each of which is introduced and summarized in this paper. Those steps are: 1. Calibration of epithermal neutron beam via in-phantom dose measurements and calibration of beam monitoring system; 2. Administration of test dose of BPA-f (boron compound) to subject; 3. Analyses of blood and tissue samples for boron content; 4. CT scanning of subject; 5. Calculation of treatment plan; 6. Irradiation of subject in the epithermal neutron beam at the MIT research reactor.
- OSTI ID:
- 426311
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961103-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 96:006307-0032
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 75; Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the European Nuclear Society (ENS), Washington, DC (United States), 10-14 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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