Applied Radiation and Isotopes 2009-07-01

A method to build an analytic model of the 10B(n,alpha)7Li reaction rate space distribution for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).

Josselin Morand, Raymond Moss, Sabet Hachem, Wolfgang Sauerwein

Index: Appl. Radiat. Isot. 67(7-8 Suppl) , S149-52, (2009)

Full Text: HTML

Abstract

This work provides the basis of a methodology to build a deterministic model for the spatial distribution of the (10)B(n,alpha)(7)Li reaction rate in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), as a function of space variables, boron concentration and beam incidence angle in homogeneous isotropic environments but also in different heterogeneous environments. Building the analytic function in a simple homogeneous environment with numerical methods leads to a mathematical formulation of the (10)B(n,alpha)(7)Li reactions rate.