Title of article
Radiation shielding evaluation of the BNCT treatment room at THOR: A TORT-coupled MCNP Monte Carlo simulation study
Author/Authors
A.Y. Chen، نويسنده , , Y.-W.H. Liu، نويسنده , , R.J. Sheu، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
Pages
11
From page
28
To page
38
Abstract
This study investigates the radiation shielding design of the treatment room for boron neutron capture therapy at Tsing Hua Open-pool Reactor using “TORT-coupled MCNP” method. With this method, the computational efficiency is improved significantly by two to three orders of magnitude compared to the analog Monte Carlo MCNP calculation. This makes the calculation feasible using a single CPU in less than 1 day. Further optimization of the photon weight windows leads to additional 50–75% improvement in the overall computational efficiency.
Keywords
radiation shielding , BNCT treatment room , Variance reduction , Adjoint function-derived weight window , Monte Carlo simulation
Journal title
Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Serial Year
2008
Journal title
Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Record number
548337
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