Affiliation:
1. Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Health, Safety and Environment Group, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Abstract
Abstract
Applicability of pure propane gas for microdosimetric measurements in neutron fields was investigated using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code. Monoenergetic neutrons in the energy range 1 keV−20 MeV and the ISO-neutron sources such as 241Am-Be, 241Am-B, 252Cf and 252Cf + D2O were considered in the present study. The tissue-equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) simulated in the study was LET-1/2 (by Far West Technology) with site sizes 1, 2 and 8 μm. The study demonstrates that for a given site size, the TEPC filled with tissue-equivalent propane and pure propane gases produce similar microdosimetric distributions when the density of pure propane gas is lowered appropriately. For the ISO-neutron sources, the density of propane gas requires scaling by a factor 0.85. For the monoenergetic neutrons, depending upon the neutron energy, the values of scaling factors are in the range of 0.58–0.93.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,General Medicine,Radiation,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
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