Design and construction of an accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (AB-BNCT) facility with multiple treatment rooms at the Southern Tohoku BNCT Research Center

Takahiro Kato; Katsumi Hirose; Hiroki Tanaka; Toshinori Mitsumoto; Tomoaki Motoyanagi; Kazuhiro Arai; Takaomi Harada; Akihiko Takeuchi; Ryohei Kato; Satoru Yajima; Yoshihiro Takai

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108961

Design and construction of an accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (AB-BNCT) facility with multiple treatment rooms at the Southern Tohoku BNCT Research Center

Appl Radiat Isot. 2020 Feb:156:108961. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108961. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

Affiliations

¹ Southern Tohoku BNCT Research Center, Fukushima, 963-8052, Japan. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Southern Tohoku BNCT Research Center, Fukushima, 963-8052, Japan.
³ Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University, Osaka, 590-0494, Japan.
⁴ Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, 141-6025, Japan.

PMID: 31683088
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.108961

Abstract

Installation of an accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (AB-BNCT) system was started in April 2014 at the Southern Tohoku BNCT Research Center (STBRC), and clinical trials began in January 2016. There are two treatment rooms, which have same specifications, and the beam quality equivalency was confirmed both rooms. Here, we describe the design and construction of the first hospital-based AB-BNCT facility in the world with multiple treatment rooms.

Keywords: Accelerator; Boron neutron capture therapy; Cyclotron; Multiple treatment room.

MeSH terms

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy / instrumentation*
Facility Design and Construction*
Japan
Particle Accelerators