Overview of the IBA accelerator-based BNCT system

Present status of Accelerator-Based BNCT

“…This same machine, with an upgraded ion source, is proposed as the core of a BNCT facility which is intended to operate at 2.8 MeV and 20 mA on a thin solid Li target at about 0.5 kW cm −2 power density. 23 Another facility under development is based on a vacuum insulated compact tandem at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia. 24 The goal for this facility is the production of near-threshold neutrons from the p+ 7 Li reaction at about 1.9 MeV and currents up to 10 mA.…”

Perspectives of boron-neutron capture therapy of malignant brain tumors

“…One more Japanese project is developing at Nagoya University of [44]. The company Ion Beam Application (IBA, Belgium) is developing a 1.9 to 2.8 MeV 15 mA Dynamitron [45]. In the future there will be developed new projects of accelerators as a vector of development of BNCT in the field of getting of neutrons beam shifted towards compact units-based accelerators.…”

Accelerator based epithermal neutron source

“…The execution of the contract was halted by mutual consent of the parties due to difficulties constructing the accelerator there. But despite termination of the contract, the studies at Dinamitron were continued [53] and in 2013 an agree ment was reached on the delivery of the accelerator with a current of 15 mA at the University of Nagoya (Japan) [54].…”

“…In the American project of linac, the target is modified in the form of the cone [122]. In the project of the IBA Co., the target consists of two inclined plates [53], and of one inclined plate in the Korean project [123]; all the projects have nearly same parameters.…”