Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: From Nuclear Physics to Biomedicine

Biology (Basel). 2021 Apr 26;10(5):370. doi: 10.3390/biology10050370.

Authors

Silva Bortolussi^{1

2}, Yuan-Hao Liu^{3

4}, Ignacio Porras⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
² Unit of Pavia, National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), 27100 Pavia, Italy.
³ Neuboron Medtech Ltd., Nanjing 211112, China.
⁴ Department of Nuclear Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing 211106, China.
⁵ Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain.

Abstract

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a binary radiation treatment exploiting a nuclear reaction occurring in tumor cells [...].

Publication types

Editorial