Electrostatic design and beam transport for a folded tandem electrostatic quadrupole accelerator facility for accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy

Vento, V.; Bergueiro, J.; Cartelli, D.; Valda, A.A.; Kreiner, Andrés J.

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.01.033

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“…After gaining some experience in the different fields of BNCT during about 60 years, today's efforts to use BNCT as a routine radiotherapy focus on the hospital-based neutron sources such as proton accelerator facility [21][22][23][24][25][26][131][132][133][134], neutron generators [42,[135][136][137] and 252 Cf radioisotope [138][139][140]. Neutron generators are devices which contain a compact linear accelerator.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first clinical successes were reported by Prof. Dr. Hatanaka et al [9,10], later on a number of other groups followed and proved positive effects on patients treated by BNCT [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. After about 60 years research and development on the reactor-based BNCT, the technical efforts are focused on the accelerator-based neutron sources to be installed in hospitals [21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Neutron beams implemented at nuclear research reactors for BNCT

2017

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A: This paper presents a survey of neutron beams which were or are in use at 56 Nuclear Research Reactors (NRRs) in order to be used for BNCT, either for treatment or research purposes in aspects of various combinations of materials that were used in their Beam Shaping Assembly (BSA) design, use of fission converters and optimized beam parameters. All our knowledge about BNCT is indebted to researches that have been done in NRRs. The results of about 60 years research in BNCT and also the successes of this method in medical treatment of tumors show that, for the development of BNCT as a routine cancer therapy method, hospital-based neutron sources are needed. Achieving a physical data collection on BNCT neutron beams based on NRRs will be helpful for beam designers in developing a non-reactor based neutron beam. K: Instrumentation for neutron sources; Instrumentation for particle-beam therapy 1Corresponding author.

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Neutron beams implemented at nuclear research reactors for BNCT

2017

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“…1 The voltages applied to the electrodes are actually achievable at current stage. [16,[23][24][25][26][27][28] The charges…”

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Theoretical derivation and simulation of a versatile electrostatic trap for cold polar molecules

2016

Chinese Phys. B

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We propose a versatile electrostatic trap scheme using several charged spherical electrodes and a bias electric field. We first give the two-ball scheme and derive the analytical solution of the electric field. In order to make a comparison, we also give the numerical solution calculated by the finite element software (Ansoft Maxwell). Considering the loading of cold polar molecules into the trap, we give the three-ball scheme. We first give the analytical and numerical solutions of the distribution of the electric field. Then we simulate the dynamic process of the loading and trapping cold molecules using the classical Monte Carlo method. We analyze the influence of the velocity of the incident molecular beam and the loading time on the loading efficiency. After that, we give the temperature of the trapped cold molecules. Our study shows that the loading efficiency can reach 82%, and the corresponding temperature of the trapped molecules is about 24.6 mK. At last, we show that the single well divides into two ones by increasing the bias electric field or decreasing the voltages applied to the spherical electrodes.

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Accelerator-Based BNCT

Kreiner

2012

Neutron Capture Therapy

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Electrostatic design and beam transport for a folded tandem electrostatic quadrupole accelerator facility for accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Neutron beams implemented at nuclear research reactors for BNCT

Neutron beams implemented at nuclear research reactors for BNCT

Theoretical derivation and simulation of a versatile electrostatic trap for cold polar molecules

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