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Review
. 2016 Jan:107:372-376.
doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.029. Epub 2015 Nov 19.

Fluence to local skin absorbed dose and dose equivalent conversion coefficients for monoenergetic positrons using Monte-Carlo code MCNP6

L Bourgois  1 , R Antoni  2
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Fluence to local skin absorbed dose and dose equivalent conversion coefficients for monoenergetic positrons using Monte-Carlo code MCNP6

L Bourgois et al. Appl Radiat Isot. 2016 Jan.

Abstract

Conversion coefficients fluence to local skin equivalent dose, as introduced in ICRP Publication 116, 2010, are calculated for positrons of energies ranging from 10 keV to 10 MeV using the code MCNP6. Fluence to dose equivalent conversion coefficients H'(0.07,0°)/Φ are calculated for positrons of energy ranging between 20 keV and 10 MeV. A comparison between operational dose quantity H'(0.07,0°) and the Local-Skin equivalent Dose shows an overall good agreement between these two quantities, except between 60 keV and 100 keV.

Keywords: Local-Skin equivalent Dose; MCNP6; Positrons; Skin dose.

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