Neutron Capture Therapy Principles and Applications /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sauerwein, Wolfgang (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wittig, Andrea (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Moss, Raymond (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Nakagawa, Yoshinobu (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Radiology.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.

Neutron capture therapy (NCT) is based on the ability of the non-radioactive isotope boron-10 to capture thermal neutrons with very high probability and immediately to release heavy particles with a path length of one cell diameter. This in principle allows for tumor cell-selective high-LET particle...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Neutron sources: Fission Reactor Based Irradiation Facilities for Neutron Capture Therapy
• Accelerator-Based BNCT
• Compact Neutron Generator for BNCT
• Californium-252 as a neutron source for BNCT
• Part II:  Boron: Boron Chemistry
• New Candidates for Boron Carriers in BNCT
• Drugs for BNCT (BSH and BPA)
• Part III: Analysis and Imaging: Boron analysis and Boron Imaging
• Proteomic investigations for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy
• Analysis and Imaging: PET
• Localized quantitative detection and imaging of Boron by Magnetic Resonance
• Part IV: Physics: Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: Application of   Radiobiological Principles
• Tolerance of Healthy Tissues and Ideal Radiation Dose on BNCT
• Part VI: Clinical Applications: Clinical trials in BNCT – a challenging task
• External beam BNCT for Glioblastoma mulitforme
• Clinical results of sodium borocaptate (BSH)-based intra-operative boron neutron capture therapy (IO-BNCT)
• Boron neutron capture therapy for malignant meningiomas
• Feasibility for intramedullary spinal glioma
• BNCT for Advanced or Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer
• Studies on the possible application of BNCT to thyroid cancer
• Malignant Melanoma
• Application of Neutron Capture Therapy for Local Recurrenced Breast Cancer
• Recurrent breast cancers & inflammatory breast cancers.-  Liver Metastases
• Boron Neutron Capture Therapy for Children with Malignant Brain Tumors
• Part VII: Non malignant diseases: Prevention of vascular restenosis after vascular angioplasty.-Boron Neutron Capture Synovectomy
• Managerial Aspects of BNCT at a nuclear research reactor.