The Czech Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) facility works by an epithermal neutron beam installed at the LVR-15 reactor at Rez near Prague. Several configurations of moderating and shielding materials have been designed in order to ensure appropriate parameters of the beam. The beam filter consists of cylindrical layers of Al, AlF3 and Ti. To decrease the gamma two layers of Pb are implemented. The filter geometry and composition has been optimized with the aim to increase the epithermal neutron fluence rate and decrease the fast neutron dose rate using the MCNP-4B Monte Carlo code with the DLC-189 library.Suitable patterns of the reactor core were also studied especially in regard to a possible installation of fuel units close to the filter input. Results of calculations show that the optimized variant of the reactor core is able to increase the intensity of the fast neutron source incident to the filter by a factor of 2.0.An experimental verification of the beam parameters was performed using different measurement techniques. The neutron energy spectrum was measured with a set of activation foils, by a Bonner spheres spectrometer and a fast neutron spectrometer with a stilbene crystal. The fast neutron kerma rate was calculated from the spectral measurement. Al-P TLD were used to measure the photon absorbed dose.The beam parameters were measured at 10 MW and were found as follows: the epithermal neutron fluence rate (an energy range from 1 eV to 10 keV) of 9.29 × 10l2m−2 s−1, the fast neutron kerma rate in tissue of 2.63 Gy h−1 and the incident gamma dose rate in tissue of 2.9 Gy h−1.