neutron capture therapy
Medicine
noun
A form of radiotherapy using a compound (usually one containing boron-10) that accumulates in tumour or other abnormal tissue and becomes a radiation source (by neutron capture) when subjected to an external neutron beam.
Origin
1950s.
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