Progress in Neutron Capture Therapy for Cancer: International Symposium Proceedings - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306441047 ISBN 13: 9780306441042

Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

Project Reviews: The Petten BNCT Project (R.L. Moss et al.). Reactor Neutron Souces: A Compact TRIGA Reactor for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (W.L. Whittemore). Accelerator Neutron Sources:Accelerator Based Neutron Sources for Neutron Capture Therapy (E. Grusell). Dosimetry and Treatment Planning: Beyond the EpithermalNeutron Beam (F.J. Wheeler et al.). Dose Enhancement: Gadolinium as a Neutron Capture Therapy Agent (J.A. Shih, R.M. Brugger). Boron Chemistry General. Boron Chemistry BPA. Boron Macromolecules. Boron Analysis in Biological Samples. Boron Imaging. Radiobiology. Preclinical Animal Studies. Acute and Late Effects in Normal Tissues. Boron Biodistributions in Glioma Patients. Clinical Studies of Cancers with Poor Prognoses. One hundred thirtyone additional articles. Index.

About this title

Synopsis

Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on [title] held December 1990, in Sydney, Australia. Participants share information that may hasten the day when patients with currently untreatable cancers can reasonably hope for substantial remissions. Topics include: binary therapies, thermal NCT for glioblastoma, and for subcutaneous melanoma,

About the Author

Barry Allen is Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306441047
• ISBN 13: 9780306441042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 628
• Editor: Allen Barry J., Etc.