Progress on the accelerator based SPES-BNCT project at INFN Legnaro
- INFN-LNL, via Dell'Universita, 2 I-35020 Legnaro (Padova), (Italy)
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova, via F. Marzolo, 8 I-35131 Padova (Italy)
- Dipartimento di Ingeneria Nucleare, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio, 34/3 I-20133 Milan (Italy)
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Padova, via Ugo Bassi, 58/B I-35121 Padova (Italy)
- ENEA - FIS-NUC, via Martiri di Monte Sole, 4 I-40129 Bologna (Italy)
- ENEA - FIS-ION, Via Anguillarese, 301 I-00060 S. Maria di Galeria, Rome (Italy)
In the framework of an advanced Exotic Ion Beam facility, named SPES (Study and Production of Exotic Species), that will allow a frontier program both in nuclear and interdisciplinary physics, an intense thermal neutron beam facility, devoted to perform Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) experimental treatments on skin melanoma tumor, is currently under construction based on the SPES proton driver. A vast radiobiological investigation in vitro and in vivo has started with the new 10B carriers developed. Special microdosimetric detectors have been constructed to properly measure all the BNCT dose components and their qualities. Both microdosimetric and radiobiological measurements are being performed at the new HYTHOR beam shaping assembly at the Enea-Casaccia TAPIRO reactor.
- OSTI ID:
- 21054804
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 884, Issue 1; Conference: 6. Latin American symposium on nuclear physics and applications, Iguazu (Argentina), 3-7 Oct 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2710554; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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