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Journal Article
Effect of neutron beam properties on dose distributions in a water phantom for boron neutron capture therapy
2024
Overview
From the viewpoints of the advantage depths (ADs), peak tumor dose and skin dose, we evaluated the effect on the dose distribution of neutron beam properties, namely the ratio between thermal and epithermal neutron fluxes (thermal/epithermal ratio), fast neutron component and γ-ray component. Several parameter surveys were conducted with respect to the beam properties of neutron sources for boron neutron capture therapy assuming boronophenylalanine as the boron agent using our dose calculation tool, called SiDE. The ADs decreased by 3% at a thermal/epithermal ratio of 20–30% compared with the current recommendation of 5%. The skin dose increased with the increasing thermal/epithermal ratio, reaching a restricted value of 14 Gyeq at a thermal/epithermal ratio of 48%. The fast neutron component was modified using two different models, namely the ‘linear model’, in which the fast neutron intensity decreases log-linearly with the increasing neutron energy, and the ‘moderator thickness (MT) model’, in which the fast neutron component is varied by adjusting the MT in a virtual beam shaping assembly. Although a higher fast neutron component indicated a higher skin dose, the increment was <10% at a fast neutron component of <1 × 10−12 Gy cm2 for both models. Furthermore, in the MT model, the epithermal neutron intensity at a fast neutron component of 6.8 × 10−13 Gy cm2 was 41% higher compared with that of 2 × 10−13 Gy cm2. The γ-ray component also caused no significant disadvantages up to several times larger compared with the current recommendation.
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Oxford University Press
