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Evaluation of the medical staff effective dose during boron neutron capture therapy using two high resolution voxel-based whole body phantoms

Golshanian, Mohadeseh (Department of Physics, Shahrood University)
Rajabi, Ali Akbar (Department of Physics, Shahrood University)
Kasesaz, Yaser (Reactor and Nuclear Safety Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (NSTRI))

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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.49, no.7, 2017 , pp. 1505-1512 More about this Journal

Abstract

Because accelerator-based boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) systems are planned for use in hospitals, entry into the medical room should be controlled as hospitals are generally assumed to be public and safe places. In this paper, computational investigation of the medical staff effective dose during BNCT has been performed in different situations using Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP4C) code and two voxel based male phantoms. The results show that the medical staff effective dose is highly dependent on the position of the medical staff. The results also show that the maximum medical staff effective dose in an emergency situation in the presence of a patient is ${\sim}25.5{\mu}Sv/s$ .

Keywords

BNCT; Effective Dose; ICRP 110 Voxel-based Phantom; MCNP4C Monte Carlo Code; Medical Staff;

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