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Fluence to effective dose conversion coefficients calculated for monoenergetic electrons up to 200 MeV in partial
M Kitaichi1, M Katagiri, M Hikoji
1Department of Atomic Science and Nuclear Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8628, Japan.
Abstract:
Organ doses and effective doses were calculated for monoenergetic electrons from 0.1 to 200 MeV using the EGS4 Monte Carlo simulation code and the MIRD-5 human phantom in various non-uniform exposure geometries: anterior-posterior (AP) and posterior-anterior (PA). Below 1 MeV, the skin is the main contributor to the effective dose conversion coefficients for each exposure geometry; however, above 1 MeV the calculations showed that the effective doses of partial exposures depended on the incident electron energy, the place and the size of the exposure on the body.
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