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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2017.11.6.429

A Study on the Difference of Geometrical Modeling in the Calculation of Shielding and Activation Using Monte Carlo Simulation  

Heo, Seunguk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
Song, Yongkeun (Gimhae Biomedical Center, Gimhae Industry Promotion and Biomedical Foundation)
Cho, Gyuseok (Department of Radiation Instrument, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences)
Han, Moojae (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University)
Park, Jikoon (Department of Radiological Science, International University of Korea)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.11, no.6, 2017 , pp. 429-435 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to increase the therapeutic effect of radiation, there has been an increase in the use of conventional photon therapy. The intensive care unit should pay more attention to the radiation safety evaluation due to the higher energy and the larger facility compared to the existing Photon treatment. These radiation safety evaluations are mainly performed by using Monte Carlo simulation, and the first thing to be done is geometric modeling. The Heavy-ion treatment facility uses synchrotron as the accelerating device, which is difficult to precisely model geometrically and is mostly modeled briefly. This study investigated the effect of simplification and precise implementation of Dipole magnet among the components of synchrotron acceleration device on the radiation safety evaluation. The results show that the simplified geometric model is overestimated with the precisely implemented geometric model. Therefore, it is considered that the radiological safety evaluation results in more reliable results of the precise geometric modeling.
Keywords
Monte Carlo simulation; Shielding simulation; Activation simulation; FLUKA; Geometry modeling;
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