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The first clinical trials of NCT were initiated at Brookhaven in 1951, using the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR). Subsequently, the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMRR) was built primarily for clinical applications of NCT, with an improved beam extraction facility providing flexibility for future development of filters/moderators for NCT. This flexibility was exploited to provide an optimized epithermal neutron beam which was recently installed and tested in the east irradiation facility (shutter) of the BMRR.
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Fairchild, R.G. et al. (1992). An Optimized Epithermal Neutron Beam for Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT) at the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMRR). In: Allen, B.J., Moore, D.E., Harrington, B.V. (eds) Progress in Neutron Capture Therapy for Cancer. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3384-9_1
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