Performance evaluation of the source description of the THOR BNCT epithermal neutron beam

This paper aims to evaluate the performance of the source description of the THOR BNCT beam via different measurement techniques in different phantoms. The measurement included (1) the absolute reaction rate measurement of a set of triple activation foils, (2) the neutron and gamma-ray dose rates me...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied radiation and isotopes 2011-12, Vol.69 (12), p.1892-1896
Hauptverfasser: Liu, Yuan-Hao, Tsai, Pi-En, Yu, Hui-Ting, Lin, Yi-Chun, Huang, Yu-Shiang, Huang, Chun-Kai, Hsueh Liu, Yen-Wan, Liu, Hong-Ming, Jiang, Shiang-Huei
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Zusammenfassung:This paper aims to evaluate the performance of the source description of the THOR BNCT beam via different measurement techniques in different phantoms. The measurement included (1) the absolute reaction rate measurement of a set of triple activation foils, (2) the neutron and gamma-ray dose rates measured using the paired ionization chamber method, and (3) the relative reaction rate distributions obtained using the indirect neutron radiography. Three source descriptions, THOR-Y09, surface source file RSSA, and THOR-50C, were tested. The comparison results concluded that THOR-Y09 is a well-tested source description not only for neutron components, but also for gamma-ray component.
ISSN:0969-8043
1872-9800
DOI:10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.04.005