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Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is expected to be an effective method of improving the treatment results on malignant brain glioma and malignant melanoma, for which no successful treatment has been developed so far. The beam shaping assembly (BSA) of accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (A-BNCT) consists of a moderator, a reflector, gamma and thermal neutron shielding and a collimator. The BSA moderates the fast neutron produced in target to epithermal energy range. Design of BSA is one of the key jobs in BNCT project. An optimized study was conducted to design a beam shaping assembly for BNCT facility based on 3.5 MeV 10 mA radio-frequency quadrupole proton accelerator at Dongguan Neutron Science Center. In this simulation work, the neutron produced from the 7Li (p, n) 7Be reaction by 3.5 MeV proton is adopted as a neutron source term. In order to search for an optimized beam shaping assembly for accelerator-based BNCT, Monte Carlo simulation is carried out based on the parameters of moderator material and structure, the Gamma shielding, and the thermal neutron filter in the beam shaping assembly. The beam shaping assembly in this work consists of various moderator materials, teflon as reflector, Bi as gamma shielding, 6Li as thermal neutron filter, and lithium polyethylene as collimator. After comparing the simulation results of Fluental and LiF moderator materials, the beam shaping assembly configuration based on sandwich Fluental-LiF configuration is proposed. The sandwich Fluental-LiF configuration is made up of Fluental and LiF layer by layer, like a sandwich structure, and each layer is 2 cm thick. According to the beam quality requirement of the IAEA-tecdoc-1223 report, the optimized epithermal neutron flux in air at the exit of BSA of the sandwich Fluental-LiF configuration is 9.14×108 n/(cm2·s), which is greater than those of the Fluental configuration (7.81×108 n/(cm2·s)) and LiF configuration (8.79×108 n/(cm2·s)), when the ratio of fast neutron component to gamma ray component to thermal neutron is less than the limiting value of IAEA recommendation. Subsequently, the depth distribution of the equivalent doses in the Snyder head phantom is calculated to evaluate the treatment characteristic. The simulation results show that the therapy rate of the beam shaping assembly based on the sandwich Fluental-LiF configuration is basically equal to that of the Fluental configuration and better than that of the LiF configuration, and the therapy time is less than that of the Fluental configuration. This means that the beam shaping assembly based on the sandwich Fluental-LiF configuration is one of the suitable options for our accelerator-based BNCT.
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Keywords:
- noron neutron capture therapy /
- Monte Carlo simulation /
- beam shaping assembly /
- moderator
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[1] Locher G L 1936 Am. J. Roentgenol. 36 1
[2] Soloway A H, Wright R L, Messer J R 1961 J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 134 117
[3] Sweet W H, Soloway A H, Wright R L 1962 J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 137 263
[4] Soloway A H, Hatanaka H, Davis M A 1967 J. Med. Chem. 10 714
[5] Choi J R, Clement S D, Harling O K, Zamenhof R G 1990 Basic Life Sci. 54 201
[6] Capoulat M E, Minsky D M, Kreiner A J 2014 Phys. Medica 30 133
[7] Phoenix B, Green S, Scott M C, Bennett J R J, Edgecock T R 2015 Appl. Radiat. Isot. 106 49
[8] Rahmani F, Shahriari M 2011 Ann. Nucl. Energy 38 404
[9] Cheng D W, Lu J B, Yang D, Liu Y M, Wang H D, Ma K Y 2012 Chin. Phys. C 36 905
[10] Minsky D M, Kreiner A J 2014 Appl. Radiat. Isot. 88 233
[11] Herrera M S, Gonzalez S J, Burlon A A, Minsky D M, Kreiner A J 2011 Appl. Radiat. Isot. 69 1870
[12] Xiao G, Wang Z Q, Zhang B A, Zhu J S 2006 Chinese J. Medical Physics 23 5 (in Chinese) [肖刚, 王仲奇, 张本爱, 朱建士 2006 中国医学物理学杂志 23 5]
[13] Yoshida F, Yamamoto T, Nakai K, Zaboronok A, Matsumura A 2015 Appl. Radiat. Isot. 106 247
[14] Guan X L, Luo Z H, Fu S N 2003 Chinese J. Nuclear Science and Engineering 23 73 (in Chinese) [关遐龄, 罗紫华, 傅世年 2003 核科学与工程 23 73]
[15] Bleuel D L 2003 Ph. D. Dissertation (Berkeley: University of California at Berkeley)
[16] IAEA 2001 Current Status of Neutron Capture Therapy (Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency) pp7-8
[17] Snyder W S, Fisher Jr H L, Ford M L, Warner G G 1969 J. Nucl. Medicine 3 7
[18] Pelowitz D G 2005 MCNPX User's Manual Version 250 (Los Alamos: Los Alamos National Laboratory) p1
[19] White D R, Griffith R V, Wilson I J 1992 J. ICRU 1 1
[20] Rahmani F, Shahriari M 2011 Ann. Nucl. Energy 38 404
[21] Lee C, Zhou X R, Harmon F, Harker Y 2000 Med. Phys. 27 192
[22] Coderre J A, Makar M S, Micca P L, Nawrocky M M, Liu H B, Joel D D, Slatkin D N, Amols H I 1993 Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 27 1121
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