The refinement of dose assessment of the THOR BNCT beam.

Appl Radiat Isot

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan.

Published: December 2011

A refined dose assessment method has been used now in the THOR BNCT facility, which takes into account more delicate corrections, carefully handled calibration factors, and the spectrum- and kerma-weighted k(t) value. The refined method solved the previous problem of negative derived neutron dose in phantom at deeper positions. With the improved dose assessment, the calculated and measured gamma-ray dose rates match perfectly in a 15×15×15 cm(3) PMMA phantom.

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