A single coned Poly-Biz moderator designed for animal irradiation in boron neutron capture therapy

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A single coned Poly-Biz moderator designed for animal irradiation in boron neutron capture therapy. / Sycheva, Tatiana ; Berendeev, Evgenii; Verkhovod, Gleb и др.

в: Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Том 198, 110818, 08.2023.

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title = "A single coned Poly-Biz moderator designed for animal irradiation in boron neutron capture therapy",

abstract = "BNCT is considered to be a promising method for the treatment of malignant tumors, which ensures the selective destruction of malignant tumor cells by accumulating non-radioactive atomic boron-10 nuclei in them and subsequent irradiation with neutrons. As a result of the absorption of a neutron by boron, a nuclear reaction occurs with the release of energy in a cell containing boron, which leads to its death. To date, two drugs for targeted delivery of boron, boronophenylalanine and sodium borocaptate, have been developed, which ensures selective accumulation of boron in a number of tumors, and a number of charged particle accelerators with neutron-generating targets and with neutron beam shaping assemblies have been developed providing the quality of the neutron beam required for therapy. The paper presents a critical analysis of the methods used to form a therapeutic neutron beam and proposes a new concept of a neutron beam shaping assembly, supported by the results of numerical simulation validated by in-phantom measurements.",

author = "Tatiana Sycheva and Evgenii Berendeev and Gleb Verkhovod and Sergey Taskaev",

year = "2023",

month = aug,

doi = "10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110818",

language = "English",

volume = "198",

journal = "Applied Radiation and Isotopes",

issn = "0969-8043",

publisher = "Elsevier Ltd",

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AU - Sycheva, Tatiana

AU - Berendeev, Evgenii

AU - Verkhovod, Gleb

AU - Taskaev, Sergey

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N2 - BNCT is considered to be a promising method for the treatment of malignant tumors, which ensures the selective destruction of malignant tumor cells by accumulating non-radioactive atomic boron-10 nuclei in them and subsequent irradiation with neutrons. As a result of the absorption of a neutron by boron, a nuclear reaction occurs with the release of energy in a cell containing boron, which leads to its death. To date, two drugs for targeted delivery of boron, boronophenylalanine and sodium borocaptate, have been developed, which ensures selective accumulation of boron in a number of tumors, and a number of charged particle accelerators with neutron-generating targets and with neutron beam shaping assemblies have been developed providing the quality of the neutron beam required for therapy. The paper presents a critical analysis of the methods used to form a therapeutic neutron beam and proposes a new concept of a neutron beam shaping assembly, supported by the results of numerical simulation validated by in-phantom measurements.

AB - BNCT is considered to be a promising method for the treatment of malignant tumors, which ensures the selective destruction of malignant tumor cells by accumulating non-radioactive atomic boron-10 nuclei in them and subsequent irradiation with neutrons. As a result of the absorption of a neutron by boron, a nuclear reaction occurs with the release of energy in a cell containing boron, which leads to its death. To date, two drugs for targeted delivery of boron, boronophenylalanine and sodium borocaptate, have been developed, which ensures selective accumulation of boron in a number of tumors, and a number of charged particle accelerators with neutron-generating targets and with neutron beam shaping assemblies have been developed providing the quality of the neutron beam required for therapy. The paper presents a critical analysis of the methods used to form a therapeutic neutron beam and proposes a new concept of a neutron beam shaping assembly, supported by the results of numerical simulation validated by in-phantom measurements.

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