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JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 76-81Publisher
KOREAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.3938/jkps.67.76
Keywords
Boron neutron capture therapy; BNCT; Reactor-based system; Accelerator-based system
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- Osaka Medical College
- Kawasaki Medical School
- Osaka University
- University of Tsukuba
- University of Tokyo
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25293267] Funding Source: KAKEN
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At the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI), a clinical study of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) using a neutron irradiation facility installed at the research nuclear reactor has been regularly performed since February 1990. As of November 2014, 510 clinical irradiations were carried out using the reactor-based system. The world's first accelerator-based neutron irradiation system for BNCT clinical irradiation was completed at this institute in early 2009, and the clinical trial using this system was started in 2012. A shift of BCNT from special particle therapy to a general one is now in progress. To promote and support this shift, improvements to the irradiation system, as well as its preparation, and improvements in the physical engineering and the medical physics processes, such as dosimetry systems and quality assurance programs, must be considered. The recent advances in BNCT at KURRI are reported here with a focus on physical engineering and medical physics topics.
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