| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 128, 2016
Theoretical and Experimental Studies in Nuclear Applications and Technology (TESNAT 2016)
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| Article Number | 04003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 3 | |
| Section | Medical Physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612804003 | |
| Published online | 15 November 2016 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612804003
Monte Carlo based dosimetry for neutron capture therapy of brain tumors
1 Faculté de physique USTHB, Laboratoire SNIRM, BP 32 EL-Alia, BEZ Algiers, Algeria.
2 LPTHIRM, Département de Physique, Université Saad Dahlab, BP 270 Route de Soumaa, Algeria.
Published online: 15 November 2016
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a biologically targeted, radiation therapy for cancer which combines neutron irradiation with a tumor targeting agent labeled with a boron10 having a high thermal neutron capture cross section. The tumor area is subjected to the neutron irradiation. After a thermal neutron capture, the excited 11B nucleus fissions into an alpha particle and lithium recoil nucleus. The high Linear Energy Transfer (LET) emitted particles deposit their energy in a range of about 10μm, which is of the same order of cell diameter [1], at the same time other reactions due to neutron activation with body component are produced. In-phantom measurement of physical dose distribution is very important for BNCT planning validation. Determination of total absorbed dose requires complex calculations which were carried out using the Monte Carlo MCNP code [2].
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