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A Stable Phantom Material for Optical and Acoustic Imaging
Published on: June 16, 2023
Voxel phantoms: the new ICRP computational phantoms: how do they compare?
Kevin Capello1, Stephanie Kedzior, Gary H Kramer
1Human Monitoring Laboratory, National Internal Radiation Assessment Section, Radiation Protection Bureau, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. kevin.capello@hc-sc.gc.ca
Abstract:
Two new voxel phantoms, ICRP Adult Female (AF) and ICRP Adult Male (AM), have been compared with BOMAB (BOttle Mannikin ABsorber) phantoms and other voxel phantoms of similar size (NORMAN and VIP-Man) using Monte Carlo simulations to assess their counting efficiencies in a whole body counter. The results show that the ICRP phantoms, compared with NORMAN and VIP-Man, had counting efficiencies that ranged from 3% to 59% higher over the energy range 122 keV to 1,836 keV, a trend that is also exhibited by the comparable BOMAB phantoms. A comparison of all the voxel phantoms' results to those of the BOMAB phantom corresponding to reference man shows that the NORMAN and VIP-Man have mostly lower counting efficiencies, whereas the ICRP phantoms have higher counting efficiencies than the PM (Phantom Male) BOMAB phantom. This could be due to differences in the internal structure of each of the voxel phantoms. As expected, the ICRP AF (female voxel) had the highest efficiency due to being the smallest of all the phantoms.
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