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Development of Microvolume LET Counter for Therapeutic Heavy Ion Beam

  • Hirai, Masaaki;Kanai, Tatsuaki
    • 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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    • pp.231-232
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    • 2002
  • We have been developing microvolume LET counter in order to measure the three-dimensional LET distribution of the therapeutic heavy ion radiation volumes in the water phantom. With help of the technique of cathode induced carhge readout, this detector has a rectangular (box-shape) sensitive volume of which size is about 1 mm$^2$ and 2mm (depth).

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6MV 선형가속기의 비대칭 조사야의 변화에 따른 선량분포 (Study on 6 MV Photon beam Dosimetry by Asymmetric Collimator Variation of Linear Accelerator)

  • 윤주호;이철수;염하용
    • 대한방사선치료학회지
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.91-104
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    • 2000
  • Recently linear accelerator in radiation therapy in asymmetric field has been easily used since the improvement and capability of asymmetrical field adjustment attached to the machine. It has been thought there have been some significant errors in dose calculation when asymmetrical radiation fields have been utilized in practice of radiation treatments if the fundamental data for dose calculation have been measured in symmetrical standard fields. This study investigated how much the measured data of dose distributions and their isodose curves are different between in asymmetrical and symmetrical standard fields, and how much there difference affect the error in dose calculation in conventional method measured in symmetrical standard field. The distributions of radiation dose were measured by photon diode detector in the water phantom (RFA-300P, Scanditronix, Sweden) as tissue equivalent material on utilization of 6 MV linear accelerator with source surface distance (SSD) 1000 mm. The photon diode detector has the velocity of 1 mm per second from water surface to 250 mm depth in the field size of $40mm{\times}40mm\;to\;250mm{\times}250mm\;symmetric\;field\;and\;40mm{\times}20mm\;to\;250mm{\times}125mm$ asymmetrical fields. The measurements of percent depth dose (PDD) and subsequent plotting of their isodose curves were performed from water surface to 250mm dmm from Y-center axis in $100mm{\times}50mm$ field in order to absence the variability of depth dose according to increasing field sizes and their affects to plotted isodose curves. The difference of PDD between symmetric and asymmetric field was maximum $4.1\%\;decrease\;in\;40mm{\times}20mm\;field,\;maximum\;6.6\%\;decrease\;in\;100mm{\times}50mm\;and\;maximum\;10.2\%\;decrease\;200mm{\times}100mm$, the larger decrease difference of PDD as the greater field size and as greater the depth, The difference of PDD between asymmetrical field and equivalent square field showed maximum $2.4\%\;decrease\;in\;60mm{\times}30mm\;field,\;maximum\;4.8\%\;decrease\;in\;150mm{\times}75mm\;and\;maximum\;6.1\%\;decrease\;in\;250mm{\times}125mm$, and the larger decreased differenced PDD as the greater field size and as greater the depth, these differences of PDD were out of $5\%$ of dose calculation as defined by international Commission on radiation unit and Measurements(ICRU). In the dose distribution of asymmetrical field (half beam) the plotted isodose curves were observed to have deviations by decreased PDD as greater as the blocking of the beam moved closer to the central axis, and as the asymmetrical field increased by moving the block 10 mm keeping away from the central axis, the PDD increased and plotted isodose curves were gradually more flattened, due to reduced amount of the primary beam and the fraction of low energy soft radiations by passing thougepth in asymmetrical field by moving independent jaw each 10 h beam flattening filter. As asymmetrical radiation field as half beam radiation technique is used, the radiation dosimetry calculated in utilizing the fundamental data which measured in standard symmetrical field should be converted on bases of nearly measured data in asymmetrical field, measured beam data flies of various asymmetrical field in various energy and be necessary in each institution.

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DEVELOPMENT OF POSITION-SENSITIVE PROTON RECOIL TELESCOPE (PSPRT)

  • Miura, Takako;Baba, Mamoru;Kawata, Naoki;Sanami, Toshiya
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.161-165
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    • 2001
  • We have developed a position-sensitive proton recoil telescope (PSPRT) which employs a position-sensitive photomultiplier (PS-PMT) and a scintillator for both a radiator and a proton-detector. This system is expected to achieve high energy resolution under a large solid angle, because it enables to obtain the information not only on the proton energy but also the recoil angle from the position data for both detectors. The response of the PSPRT for 14.1 MeV mono-energetic neutrons was measured, and the PSPRT proved to be operating as expected.

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STUDY ON THE ELECTRON GENERATION BY A MICRO-CHANNEL PLATE BASED ON EGS4 CALCULATIONS AND THE UNIVERSAL YIELD CURVE

  • Moon, B.S.;Han, S.H.;Kim, Y.K.;Chung, C.E.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제26권3호
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    • pp.177-181
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    • 2001
  • The conversion efficiency of a cesium iodine coated micro-channel plate is studied. We use the EGS4 code to transport photons and generated electrons until their energies become less than 1keV and 10keV respectively. Among the generated electrons, the emission from the secondary electrons located within the escape depth of 56nm from the photo-converter boundary is estimated by integrating the product of the secondary electrons with a probability depending only on their geometric locations. The secondary electron emission from the generated electrons of energy higher than 100eV is estimated by the 'universal yield curve'. The sum of these provides an estimate for the secondary electron yield and we show that results of applying this algorithm agree with known experimental results. Using this algorithm, we computed secondary electron emissions from a micro-channel plate used in a gas electron multiplier detector that is currently being developed at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute.

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Performance of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detector

  • Han, S.H.;Moon, B.S.;Kim, Y.K.;Chung, C.E.;Kang, H.D.;Cho, H.S.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제28권4호
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    • pp.343-348
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    • 2003
  • We have investigated in detail the operating properties of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors with a double conical and a cylindrical structure in a wide range of external fields and GEM voltages. With the double conical GEM, the gain gradually increased with time by 10%; whereas this surface charging was eliminated with the cylindrical GEM. Effective gains above 1000 were easily observed over a wide range of collection field strengths in a gas mixture of $Ar/CO_2(70/30)$. The transparency and electron collection efficiency were found to depend on the ratio of external field and the applied GEM voltage; the mutual influence of both drift and collection fields was found to be trivial.

원자력 발전소 손발오염 검사장비 설계 (Design of Hand and Foot Radiation Contamination Monitor in Nuclear Power Plant)

  • 박종범;윤기갑;김중선;손창호
    • 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한전기학회 2000년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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    • pp.2828-2830
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    • 2000
  • When changing old parts of the System or establishing new system of the Nuclear power plane it's contribution that given effective economics and learning radiation detector and protect contamination for human, It will be contributed to minimizing pollution of employee for radioactivity as spread of supply with the products in cheaper price then foreign products in new or existing N.P.P.

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방사선 검출기의 제작과 방사선 선량측정 - LIF ( Mg , Cu , Na , Si ) 형광체의 TSEE 특성 - (Preparation of Radiation Detector and Radiation Dosimetry - TSEE Charactristics of LiF ( Mg , Cu , Na , Si ) Phosphor -)

  • 도시홍
    • 수산해양기술연구
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    • 제27권4호
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    • pp.328-331
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    • 1991
  • LiF(Mg,Cu,Na,Si) 형광체의 ${\gamma}$선과 $\beta$선에 대한 TSEE 특성을 조사하였다. 상(60)Co ${\gamma}$선에 대한 감도는 약 450 counts/mR이었고, 여러 가지 $\beta$선에 대한 TSEE 에너지 의존성은 $\beta$입자의 평균에너지 0.02MeV에서 0.8MeV 사이에서 $\pm$10%이었다. 그리고 제작된 형광체 앞면에 7mg.cm 상(-2)의 인체 등가물질을 두 면 입사 $\beta$입자의 에너지에 무관하게 피부 흡수 선량을 측정할 수 있었다.

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Evaluation of 18F Radioactive Concentration in Exhaust at Cyclotron Facility at Chosun University

  • Jeong, Cheol-ki;Jang, Han;Lee, Goung-jin
    • 방사선산업학회지
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.37-41
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    • 2016
  • The recent prevalence of PET examinations in Korea has led to an increase in the number of cyclotrons. The medical isotope $^{18}F$ produced in most cyclotron facilities currently operating in Korea is emitted into the environment during the production of [$^{18}F$]FDG, a cancerdiagnosis reagent. The amount of [$^{18}F$]FDG synthesized determines the radioactive concentration of $^{18}F$ in the exhaust. At some facilities, this amount temporarily exceeds the emission limit. In this study, we evaluated the $^{18}F$ radioactivity concentration in the exhaust from the cyclotron facility at Chosun University. The $^{18}F$ radioactivity concentration was measured using an air sampler and a HPGe semiconductor detector. The measurements showed that the radioactive concentration of $^{18}F$ in the exhaust at the cyclotron facility at Chosun University was the highest during [$^{18}F$]FDG synthesis but remained under the legal limit of $2,000Bq\;m^{-3}$.