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Boron Neutron Capture Therapy

Known as: Therapy, Boron-Neutron Capture, Boron-neutron capture therapy, BNCT 
A type of radiation therapy. A substance that contains boron is injected into a blood vessel. The boron collects in tumor cells. The patient then… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Photosynthetic antenna-reaction center mimicry with a covalently linked monostyryl boron-dipyrromethene-aza-boron-dipyrromethene-C60 triad.
An efficient functional mimic of the photosynthetic antenna-reaction center has been designed and synthesized. The model contains… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
Recent development and improvement for boron hydride-based catalytic asymmetric reduction of unsymmetrical ketones.
Catalytic asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones with hydrides such as boranes and borohydrides is one of the simplest and the… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Fabrication of Vertically Aligned Single‐Crystalline Boron Nanowire Arrays and Investigation of Their Field‐Emission Behavior
Aligned single crystalline boron nanowire arrays are formed by thermal carbon reduction. The SEM image shows an array of boron… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Boron neutron capture therapy in cancer: past, present and future.
Undifferentiated thyroid cancer (UTC) is a very aggressive tumor with no effective treatment, since it lacks iodine uptake and… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Trivalent boron as acceptor in D-pi-A chromophores: synthesis, structure and fluorescence following single- and two-photon excitation.
A series of new donor-pi-acceptor type compounds with trivalent boron as acceptor which show strong two-photon excited up… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Redox Switches with Chiroptical Signal Expression Based on Binaphthyl Boron Dipyrromethene Conjugates This work was supported by a PhD fellowship from the Universiät Regensburg. We thank Prof. O…
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Ion microscopy imaging of 10B from p-boronophenylalanine in a brain tumor model for boron neutron capture therapy.
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), a binary treatment modality that can potentially irradiate tumor tissue within cellular… 
1992
1992
Boron neutron capture therapy for murine malignant gliomas.
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) involves administration of a boron compound followed by neutron irradiation of the target… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Present status of boron neutron capture therapy.
The neutron capture reaction 10B(1n,4He)7Li produces two energetic particles, 4He2+ and 7Li3+ that are strongly cell toxic. Due… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Boron neutron capture therapy of intracerebral rat gliosarcomas.
The efficacy of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) for the treatment of intracerebrally implanted rat gliosarcomas was tested… 
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