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Neutron source for neutron capture therapy

US10874881B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Adelphi Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Melvin Arthur Piestrup · Redwood City, US
Craig Mathew Brown · Santa Clara, US
Allan Xi Chen · Daly City, US
Charles Kevin Gary · Palo Alto, US
Yao Zong Guan · San Francisco, US
Yoshio Horii · Fukushima, JP
Glenn Emerson Jones, Jr. · Pittsburg, US
Yuji Kokubo · Fukushima, JP
Naoyuki Yamada · Hitachinaka, JP
Shotaro Komura · Fukushima, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 18, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 18, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61N2005/1095
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A treatment system for evaluating boron sources for boron neutron cancer therapy (BNCT) has a substantially square secondary moderator having a central treatment chamber for a subject; and four substantially identical neutron generators positioned around the substantially square secondary moderator with the axis of each acceleration chamber passing through the center of the treatment chamber.

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