Concurrent hyperthermia and radiation therapy in treatment of cancer show a strong evidence of a synergistic enhancement. We designed a new self-regulating Thermo-Brachytherapy seed, which serves as a source of both radiation and heat for concurrent administration of brachytherapy and hyperthermia. The Thermo-Brachytherapy seed has a core of ferromagnetic material which produces heat when subje...

introduction lead-based shields are the most widely used attenuators in x-ray and gamma ray fields. the heavy weight, toxicity and corrosion of lead have led researchers towards the development of non-lead shields. materials and methods the purpose of this study was to design multi-layered shields for protection against x-rays and gamma rays in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. in this...

PURPOSE Effective treatment planning for radiotherapy is dependent on accurate spectra determination; however, direct measurements of spectra arecomplicated by fluence rates that exceed detection system limitations. This work demonstrates the potential to use a Compton scattering technique to measure the spectrum of a 6MV linac. These spectra are further characterized using Monte Carlo (MC) sim...

The Plasma Facing Components (PFCs) of the divertor target contribute to fundamental functions heat removal and particle exhaust during fusion operation, being subjected a very hostile complex loading environment characterized by intense particles bombardment, high fluxes (HHF), varying stresses loads significant neutron irradiation. development well-designed target, which represents crucial st...

concurrent hyperthermia and radiation therapy in treatment of cancer show a strong evidence of a synergistic enhancement. we designed a new self-regulating thermo-brachytherapy seed, which serves as a source of both radiation and heat for concurrent administration of brachytherapy and hyperthermia. the thermo-brachytherapy seed has a core of ferromagnetic material which produces heat when subje...

PURPOSE HDR (60)Co system has recently been developed and utilized for brachytherapy in many countries outside of the U.S. as an alternative to (192)Ir. In addition, the AccuBoost(®) technique has been demonstrated to be a successful non-invasive image-guided breast brachytherapy treatment option. The goal of this project is to evaluate the possibility of utilizing the BEBIG HDR (60)Co system f...

The University of Missouri Research Reactor has designed and constructed a thermal neutron beam line for use in small animal boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) experiments. Details of the facility have been previously reported by Brockman et al.[1] and Pozzi et al.[2]. The facility utilizes a 15.24 cm diameter beam tube that extends from the beryllium reflector to the biological shield, a dis...

A glass seed consisting of the β--emitting radionuclide 90Y incorporated with radionuclide 153Sm as SPECT marker is proposed for potential application in brachytherapy in order to reduce the undesirable dose to healthy adjacent organs. The aim of this work is to determine the dosimetric characteristics, as suggested in the AAPM TG-60/TG-149 reports, for this seed using Monte Carlo simulation. M...