Monte Carlo simulation of photon buildup factors for shielding materials in radiotherapy x-ray facilities

Karim Karoui, Mohamed; Kharrati, Hedi

doi:10.1118/1.4811142

Title: Monte Carlo simulation of photon buildup factors for shielding materials in radiotherapy x-ray facilities

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Purpose: This paper presents the results of a series of calculations to determine buildup factors for ordinary concrete, baryte concrete, lead, steel, and iron in broad beam geometry for photons energies from 0.125 to 25.125 MeV at 0.250 MeV intervals.Methods: Monte Carlo N-particle radiation transport computer code has been used to determine the buildup factors for the studied shielding materials.Results: The computation of the primary broad beams using buildup factors data was done for nine published megavoltage photon beam spectra ranging from 4 to 25 MV in nominal energies, representing linacs made by the three major manufacturers. The first tenth value layer and the equilibrium tenth value layer are calculated from the broad beam transmission for these nine primary megavoltage photon beam spectra.Conclusions: The results, compared with published data, show the ability of these buildup factor data to predict shielding transmission curves for the primary radiation beam. Therefore, the buildup factor data can be combined with primary, scatter, and leakage x-ray spectra to perform computation of broad beam transmission for barriers in radiotherapy shielding x-ray facilities.

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Karim Karoui, Mohamed ^[1]; Kharrati, Hedi ^[2]

Faculte des Sciences de Monastir, Avenue de l'environnement 5019 Monastir -Tunisia (Tunisia)
Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de la Sante de Monastir, Avenue Avicenne 5000 Monastir (Tunisia)

Publication Date:: Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013

OSTI Identifier:: 22121633

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Medical Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 40; Journal Issue: 7; Other Information: (c) 2013 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-2405

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONCRETES; IRON; LEAD; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIOTHERAPY; SHIELDING; SHIELDING MATERIALS; STEELS; X RADIATION; X-RAY SPECTRA

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                    Karim Karoui, Mohamed, and Kharrati, Hedi. Monte Carlo simulation of photon buildup factors for shielding materials in radiotherapy x-ray facilities.  United States: N. p., 2013. 
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                    Karim Karoui, Mohamed, & Kharrati, Hedi. Monte Carlo simulation of photon buildup factors for shielding materials in radiotherapy x-ray facilities.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4811142

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        "Monte Carlo simulation of photon buildup factors for shielding materials in radiotherapy x-ray facilities".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4811142.

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@article{osti_22121633,

  title        = {Monte Carlo simulation of photon buildup factors for shielding materials in radiotherapy x-ray facilities},

  author       = {Karim Karoui, Mohamed and Kharrati, Hedi},

  abstractNote = {Purpose: This paper presents the results of a series of calculations to determine buildup factors for ordinary concrete, baryte concrete, lead, steel, and iron in broad beam geometry for photons energies from 0.125 to 25.125 MeV at 0.250 MeV intervals.Methods: Monte Carlo N-particle radiation transport computer code has been used to determine the buildup factors for the studied shielding materials.Results: The computation of the primary broad beams using buildup factors data was done for nine published megavoltage photon beam spectra ranging from 4 to 25 MV in nominal energies, representing linacs made by the three major manufacturers. The first tenth value layer and the equilibrium tenth value layer are calculated from the broad beam transmission for these nine primary megavoltage photon beam spectra.Conclusions: The results, compared with published data, show the ability of these buildup factor data to predict shielding transmission curves for the primary radiation beam. Therefore, the buildup factor data can be combined with primary, scatter, and leakage x-ray spectra to perform computation of broad beam transmission for barriers in radiotherapy shielding x-ray facilities.},

  doi          = {10.1118/1.4811142},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22121633},
  journal      = {Medical Physics},

  issn         = {0094-2405},

  number       = 7,

  volume       = 40,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013},

  month        = {Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013}

}

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