Determining organ dose conversion coefficients for external neutron irradiation by using a voxel mouse model
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Published on: April 24, 2020
Xiaomin Zhang1, Xiangdong Xie1, Decheng Qu1
1Department of Radiation Protection and Health Physics, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Taiping Road 27, Haidian District, Beijing 100850, China.
Abstract:
A set of fluence-to-dose conversion coefficients has been calculated for neutrons with energies <20 MeV using a developed voxel mouse model and Monte Carlo N-particle code (MCNP), for the purpose of neutron radiation effect evaluation. The calculation used 37 monodirectional monoenergetic neutron beams in the energy range 10(-9) MeV to 20 MeV, under five different source irradiation configurations: left lateral, right lateral, dorsal-ventral, ventral-dorsal, and isotropic. Neutron fluence-to-dose conversion coefficients for selected organs of the body were presented in the paper, and the effect of irradiation geometry conditions, neutron energy and the organ location on the organ dose was discussed. The results indicated that neutron dose conversion coefficients clearly show sensitivity to irradiation geometry at neutron energy below 1 MeV.
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