Authors: N. Fujimoto,H. Tanaka,Y. Sakurai,T. Takata,N. Kondo,M. Narabayashi,Y. Nakagawa,T. Watanabe,Y. Kinashi,S. Masunaga,A. Maruhashi,K. Ono,M. Suzuki,
Journal: Applied Radiation and Isotopes
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.07.041
Abstract: It is important that improvements are made to depth dose distribution in boron neutron capture therapy, because the neutrons do not reach the innermost regions of the human body. Here, we evaluated the dose distribution obtained using multiple-field irradiation in simulation. From a dose volume histogram analysis, it was found that the mean and minimum tumor doses were increased using two-field irradiation, because of improved dose distribution for deeper-sited tumors.