The undesirable production of secondary neutrons by cancer-radiotherapy linear accelerators (linac) has been demonstrated to cause soft errors in nearby electronics through the /sup 10/B(n,a)/sup 7/Li reaction. /sup 10/B is a component in the BPSG used as a dielectric material in some integrated-circuit (IC) fabrication processes.
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