Application of fission track detectors to californium‐252 neutron dosimetry in tissue near the radiation source
作者:
Richard A. Oswald,
Lawrence H. Lanzl,
Martin Rozenfeld,
期刊:
Medical Physics
(WILEY Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 8,
issue 3
页码: 292-301
ISSN:0094-2405
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1118/1.594874
出版商: American Association of Physicists in Medicine
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Fission track detectors were applied to a unique problem in neutron dosimetry. Measurements of neutron doses were required at locations within a tumor of 1 cm diameter implanted on the back of a mouse and surrounded by a square array of four252Cf medical sources. Measurements made in a tissue‐equivalent mouse phantom showed that the neutron dose rate to the center of the tumor was 2.18 rads μ g−1h−1±8.4%. The spatial variation of neutron dose to the tumor ranged from 1.88 to 2.55 rads μ g−1h−1. These measurements agree with calculated values of neutron dose to those locations in the phantom. Fission track detectors have been found to be a reliable tool for neutron dosimetry for geometries in which one wishes to know neutron dose values which may vary considerably over distances of 1 cm or less.
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