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Calculated Electron Spectra for Gadolinium Neutron Capture Therapy

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Gadolinium (Gd) is expected to be an alternate active element to boron (B) for Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT)(1). The reaction between 157Gd and thermal neutron is as follows:

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Maeda, T., Kagehira, K., Sakurai, Y., Kobayashi, T., Kanda, K., Akine, Y. (1996). Calculated Electron Spectra for Gadolinium Neutron Capture Therapy. In: Mishima, Y. (eds) Cancer Neutron Capture Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9567-7_75

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