The overview and prospects of BNCT facility at Tsing Hua Open-pool reactor.
BNCT facility
Overview
Prospects
THOR
Journal
Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine
ISSN: 1872-9800
Titre abrégé: Appl Radiat Isot
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306253
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
23
08
2019
revised:
17
01
2020
accepted:
20
03
2020
pubmed:
7
4
2020
medline:
8
7
2021
entrez:
7
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The whole picture of the BNCT facility at Tsing Hua Open-pool Reactor will be presented which consists of the following aspects: the construction project, the beam quality, routine operations including the QA program for the beam delivery, determination of boron-10 concentration in blood, T/N ratio, and the clinical affairs including the patient recruit procedure and the patient irradiation procedure. The facility is positioned to serve for conducting clinical trials, emergent (compassionate) treatments, and R&D works.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32250842
pii: S0969-8043(19)30937-6
doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109143
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
109143Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.