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Opportunistic dose amplification for proton and carbon ion therapy via capture of internally generated thermal neutrons

This paper presents Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle Therapy (NCEPT), a method for enhancing the radiation dose delivered to a tumour relative to surrounding healthy tissues during proton and carbon ion therapy by capturing thermal neutrons produced inside the treatment volume during irradiation. N...

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Autores principales: Safavi-Naeini, Mitra, Chacon, Andrew, Guatelli, Susanna, Franklin, Daniel R., Bambery, Keith, Gregoire, Marie-Claude, Rosenfeld, Anatoly
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6215016/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30390002
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34643-w
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