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
fDate :
4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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"
Conference_Titel :
Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications (ANIMMA), 2015 4th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ANIMMA.2015.7465550
