Published April 2008 | Version v1
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Unifying dose specification between clinical BNCT centers in the Americas

Creators

  • 1. Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Centro Atomico Bariloche, S. C. de Bariloche, Rio Negro (Argentina)
  • 2. Instituto de Oncologia Angel H. Roffo, Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • 3. Departamento de Instrumentacion y Control, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • 4. Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)
  • 5. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 138 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
  • 6. Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 138 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Description

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

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1118/1.2884856;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Medical Physics
Journal Volume
35
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 1295-1298
ISSN
0094-2405
CODEN
MPHYA6

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40003160
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Descriptors DEI
DOSIMETRY; FAST NEUTRONS; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; PATIENTS; PHANTOMS; RA-6 REACTOR; RADIATION DOSES; STANDARDIZATION; THERMAL NEUTRONS
Descriptors DEC
BARYONS; BEAMS; DOSES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FERMIONS; HADRONS; MEDICINE; MOCKUP; NEUTRON THERAPY; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUCLEON BEAMS; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POOL TYPE REACTORS; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; RESEARCH REACTORS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TEST FACILITIES; TEST REACTORS; THERAPY; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

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Notes
(c) 2008 American Association of Physicists in Medicine