The Simulation of Effective Dose of Human Body from External Exposure by Monte Carlo Methods

Author

Tang Xiaobin ; Geng Changran ; Chen Feida ; Liu Yunpeng ; Chen Da ; Xie Qin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nucl. Sci. & Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-28 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

155

Abstract

In practical dose estimation work of radiation protection, organ absorbed dose and effective dose are immeasurable. To acquire effective dose of human body, this paper is focused on Monte Carlo calculation with two monoenergic photons--ADAM phantom and EVE phantom, 0.3MeV and 1.0MeV photon beams, and irradiation from six different angles respectively-AP irradiation geometry, PA irradiation geometry, LAT irradiation geometry, overhead irradiation geometry, underfoot irradiation geometry and arbitrary irradiation geometry. Compared to the reference activities of ICRP 51, the calculated activities using ADAM phantom and EVE phantom had a relative error in 4%. The results indicate that, ADAM phantom and EVE phantom can simulate the human body effective dose perfectly, and the effective dose of female exceeds that of male entirely.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; biological organs; dosimetry; phantoms; ADAM phantom; AP irradiation geometry; EVE phantom; LAT irradiation geometry; Monte Carlo method; PA irradiation geometry; dose estimation; electron volt energy 0.3 MeV; electron volt energy 1.0 MeV; external exposure; human body effective dose; monoenergic photon; organ absorbed dose; overhead irradiation geometry; radiation protection; underfoot irradiation geometry; Breast; Geometry; Humans; Monte Carlo methods; Phantoms; Photonics; Radiation effects; MCNP; effective dose; phantoms; radiation protection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complexity and Data Mining (IWCDM), 2011 First International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Nanjing, Jiangsu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2007-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCDM.2011.43

Filename

6128454