Production of a faithful realistic phantom to human head and thermal neutron flux measurement on the brain surface (Cooperative research)

Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi; Kumada, Hiroaki; Kishi, Toshiaki; Torii, Yoshiya; Endo, Kiyoshi*; Yamamoto, Tetsuya*; Matsumura, Akira*; Uchiyama, Junzo; Nose, Tadao*

JAERI-Tech 2002-092, 23 Pages, 2002/12

JAERI-Tech-2002-092.pdf:5.22MB

Thermal neutron flux is determined using the gold wires in current BNCT irradiation, so evaluation of arbitrary points after the irradiation is limited in the quantity of these detectors. In order to make up for the weakness, dose estimation of a patient is simulated by a computational dose calculation supporting system. In another way without computer simulation, a medical irradiation condition can be replicate experimentally using of realistic phantom which was produced from CT images by rapid prototyping technique. This phantom was irradiated at a same JRR-4 neutron beam as clinical irradiation condition of the patient and the thermal neutron distribution on the brain surface was measured in detail. This experimental evaluation technique using a realistic phantom is applicable to in vitro cell irradiation experiments for radiation biological effects as well as in-phantom experiments for dosimetry under the nearly medical irradiation condition of patient.

An Application to Intraoperative BNCT using epithermal neutron of new JRR-4 mode "Epi-12"

Matsushita, Akira*; Yamamoto, Tetsuya*; Matsumura, Akira*; Nose, Tadao*; Yamamoto, Kazuyoshi; Kumada, Hiroaki; Torii, Yoshiya; Kashimura, Takanori*; Otake, Shinichi*

Research and Development in Neutron Capture Therapy, p.141 - 143, 2002/09

A thermal-epithermal mixed beam "Thermal Neutron Beam Mode I" was used in the eleven sessions of boron neutron capture therapy which have been performed at JRR-4 from 1998. We are planning to use an epithermal beam for the treatment of deeper tumors in the next trial of the intraoperative BNCT. In this study, "Epi-12" which was made by putting up a cadmium shutter of "Thermal Neutron Beam Mode I" was investigated for the clinical benefits and safety by epithermal beams. Decrease of fast neutron contamination ratio in Epi-12 mode is the advantage for BNCT, particular in the intraoperative BNCT. Because fast neutron on the brain surface is one of the critical factors in the intraoperative BNCT in which the plain beam directly interacts the normal structures. Furthermore a mixture of mode Epi-12 and Th-12 will provide various dose distribution designs. It may be used as a new method to control the best distribution for individual tumors.

Measurement of the Nb(n,n)Nb reaction cross section at 14.5 and 14.9 MeV

Ikeda, Yujiro; Konno, Chikara; Kosako, Kazuaki*; Asai, Masato*; Kawade, Kiyoshi*; Maekawa, Hiroshi

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 30(10), p.967 - 973, 1993/10

https://doi.org/10.3327/jnst.30.967

no abstracts in English

High sensitivity dosimetry by CO

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Chemistry Letters, 1973(9), p.1015 - 1016, 1973/09

no abstracts in English