• DocumentCode
    3772779
  • Title

    Monte Carlo simulations of photoneutron activation in a medical LINAC

  • Author

    Francois Begin;Addil Sellam;Abdel-Mjid Nourreddine

  • Author_Institution
    Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, 23 rue du Loess, BP 28, 67037 Strasbourg cedex 2, France
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    The first step of the present study was to simulate the γ-radioactivity produced by photoneutrons in the treatment head of a decommissioned medical LINAC. These results, obtained with MCNPX and CINDER´90, are then compared with γ-ray spectrometric measurements of parts of the treatment head. Our ultimate objective is to simulate the associated production by photonuclear reactions of pure β-emitters, which are more difficult to access experimentally than the γ-ray emitters.
  • Keywords
    "Photonics","Linear particle accelerator","Neutrons","Copper","Steel","Production","Isotopes"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), 2015 4th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465550
  • Filename
    7465550
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3772779