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Fluence-to-effective dose conversion coefficients from a Saudi population based phantom for monoenergetic photon beams from 10 keV to 20 MeV


Ali Alghamdi
pmid: 25517542
Fluence-to-effective dose conversion coefficients from a Saudi population based phantom for monoenergetic photon beams from 10 keV to 20 MeV
Fluence-to-dose conversion coefficients are important quantities for radiation protection, derived from Monte Carlo simulations of the radiation particles through a stylised phantom or voxel based phantoms. The voxel phantoms have been developed for many ethnic groups for their accurate reflection of the anatomy. In this study, we used the Monte Carlo code MCNPX to calculate the photon fluence-to-effective dose conversion coefficients with a voxel phantom based on the Saudi Arabian male population. Six irradiation geometries, anterior-posterior (AP), posterior-anterior (PA), left lateral (LLAT), right lateral (RLAT), rotational (ROT) and isotropic (ISO) were simulated for monoenergetic photon beams from 10 keV to 20 MeV. We compared the coefficients with the reference values in ICRP Publication 116. The coefficients in the AP and PA geometries match the reference values to 9% and 12% on average as measured by root mean square while those in the LLAT, RLAT ROT and ISO geometries differ, mostly below, from the reference by 23, 22, 15 and 16%, respectively. The torso of the Saudi phantom is wider than the ICRP reference male phantom and likely to cause more attenuation to the lateral beam. The ICRP reference coefficients serve well for the Saudi male population as conservative estimations for the purpose of radiation protection.
- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Saudi Arabia
- Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Saudi Arabia
Photons, Models, Statistical, Saudi Arabia, Absorption, Radiation, Reproducibility of Results, Radiation Dosage, Models, Biological, Sensitivity and Specificity, Whole-Body Counting, Biomimetics, Humans, Scattering, Radiation, Computer Simulation, Algorithms
Photons, Models, Statistical, Saudi Arabia, Absorption, Radiation, Reproducibility of Results, Radiation Dosage, Models, Biological, Sensitivity and Specificity, Whole-Body Counting, Biomimetics, Humans, Scattering, Radiation, Computer Simulation, Algorithms
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