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A Study on the Performance Evaluation of Standard Gamma Irradiation System Using Monte Carlo Code

몬테카를로 코드를 활용한 표준 감마선 조사장치의 성능평가에 관한 연구

  • Park, Won-Seok (The 85 Precision Standard Maintenance Depot, Air Force) ;
  • Heo, Seung-Uk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University) ;
  • Kim, Jang-Oh (Department of Emergency Management, Inje University) ;
  • Min, Byung-In (Department of Nuclear Applied Engineering, Inje University)
  • 박원석 (공군 85정밀표준정비창) ;
  • 허승욱 (인제대학교 의용공학부) ;
  • 김장오 (인제대학교 재난관리학부) ;
  • 민병인 (인제대학교 원자력응용공학부)
  • Received : 2018.03.07
  • Accepted : 2018.04.30
  • Published : 2018.04.30

Abstract

In this study, we compared the measured values of the effective beam size of standard gamma irradiator with the simulation results to provide a useful means to the effective beam area determination. Results of the simulation and measured using ion chamber was distributed in a relative error of 4.5 ~ 7.3% of the case of air kerma rate. The size of the effective beam area is when the simulation was implemented in the horizontal direction 27cm, 21.6cm vertical direction, the measured result using a film was obtained similar results with the horizontal direction 26.5cm, 21.9cm vertical direction. The relative error in the horizontal direction is 1.85% and 1.38% vertical effective beam area was also similarly distributed around the field gamma rays. As a result of the study, it was confirmed that the effectiveness of the simulation was sufficient for the gamma irradiation system. In particular, it is small relative errors in the effective beam size than the air kerma rate is considered to be due to the size of the beam is determined by geometric factors rather than the capacity of the standard source. A further study is needed to improve the reliability of the photon energy distribution diagram using simulation.

본 연구는 표준 감마선 조사장치의 유효빔 크기를 실측과 시뮬레이션의 결과를 비교하여 유효빔 영역의 결정에 유용한 수단을 제공하고자 하였다. 시뮬레이션과 전리함을 이용한 실측의 결과는 공기커마율의 경우는 상대오차 4.5~7.3% 범위에 분포하였다. 유효빔 영역의 크기는 시뮬레이션의 경우 수평 방향 27cm, 수직 방향 21.6cm로 구현되었고, 필름을 이용한 실측결과는 수평 방향 26.5cm, 수직 방향 21.9cm로 유사한 결과가 도출되었다. 수평방향의 상대오차는 1.85%, 수직 방향은 1.38% 이며 유효빔 영역도 감마선장을 중심으로 유사하게 분포하였다. 감마선 조사장치에 있어서 시뮬레이션의 유효성이 충분함을 확인하였다. 특히 공기커마율보다 유효빔 크기의 상대오차가 적은 것은 빔의 크기가 표준선원의 용량보다는 기하학적 요인으로 결정되기 때문인 것으로 판단된다. 향후 시뮬레이션을 이용한 광자 에너지 분포도의 신뢰성을 높이기 위한 연구가 필요 할 것이다.

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