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- Leena Kankaanranta, Tiina Sisko Seppälä, +12 authors Heikki Joensuu
- International journal of radiation oncology…
- 2011
PURPOSE
To investigate the safety of boronophenylalanine-mediated boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) in the treatment of malignant gliomas that progress after surgery and conventional external beam… (More)
- Heikki Joensuu, Leena Kankaanranta, +19 authors Sauli Savolainen
- Journal of Neuro-Oncology
- 2003
SummaryTwo clinical trials are currently running at the Finnish dedicated boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) facility. Between May 1999 and December 2001, 18 patients with supratentorial… (More)
- Leena Kankaanranta, Tiina Sisko Seppälä, +17 authors Heikki Joensuu
- International journal of radiation oncology…
- 2012
PURPOSE
To investigate the efficacy and safety of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) in the treatment of inoperable head-and-neck cancers that recur locally after conventional photon radiation… (More)
- Iiro Auterinen, Tom Serén, Kati Anttila, Antti Kosunen, Sauli Savolainen
- Applied radiation and isotopes : including data…
- 2004
Eight epithermal neutron beams, constructed for clinical or preclinical studies of NCT, have been dosimetrically characterized by in-air measurements with a set of activation foils for the… (More)
- Leena Kankaanranta, Tiina Sisko Seppälä, +14 authors Heikki Joensuu
- International journal of radiation oncology…
- 2007
PURPOSE
Head and neck carcinomas that recur locally after conventional irradiation pose a difficult therapeutic problem. We evaluated safety and efficacy of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) in… (More)
- Mauri Kouri, Leena Kankaanranta, +10 authors Heikki Joensuu
- Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the…
- 2004
A large, rapidly progressing, unresectable undifferentiated sinonasal head and neck carcinoma regressed rapidly following single fraction boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). The main toxicity… (More)
- Antti Kosunen, Mika Kortesniemi, +6 authors Sauli Savolainen
- 1999
The validity of the twin ionisation chamber technique for determination of gamma and neutron doses in an epithermal neutron beam has been studied by comparisor of measured and calculated dose… (More)
- Sauli Savolainen, Mika Kortesniemi, +15 authors Iiro Auterinen
- Physica medica : PM : an international journal…
- 2013
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a binary radiotherapy method developed to treat patients with certain malignant tumours. To date, over 300 treatments have been carried out at the Finnish BNCT… (More)
- Iiro Auterinen, Pekka Hiismaeki, +12 authors Petteri Välimäki
- 2001
Using FiR 1, a 250kW TRIGA reactor as a neutron source for BNCT was screened as a viable option in 1990, as the future of the reactor was questioned. By the initiative of the medical radio isotope… (More)
- Tobias Schmitz, Niels Bassler, +11 authors Gabriele Hampel
- Medical physics
- 2014
PURPOSE
The response of alanine solid state dosimeters to ionizing radiation strongly depends on particle type and energy. Due to nuclear interactions, neutron fields usually also consist of… (More)