TEKNIK AKTIVASI FOIL INDIUM UNTUK MENENTUKAN DISTRIBUSI NEUTRON TERMAL DALAM FANTOM PADAT DI BAWAH IRADIASI LINAC 15MV
Keywords:
Thermal neutron flux, LINAC, indium, phantom, activation foilAbstract
Nowadays, using linear accelerator (LINAC) for therapeutic cancer activity intensively use. The advantages of linac compared to teletherapy plane are no longer using radioactive sources and have a variety of energy thus can be adapted to the needs . When a linac is operated above 10 MV , there will be a photoneutron reaction (γ,n) from the interaction of high X-rays energy striking the material components of linac such as target , collimator and filter. Photoneutron reaction will produce neutrons. Measurement of neutron flux is very important to the safety in the radiotherapy due to neutron emission is a secondary radiation that would increase the risk of secondary cancers in patients due to increasing the dose of radiation received . This study evaluated the neutron flux generated by the 15 MV linac using foil activation technique. The 45 foils inserted in a solid phantom irradiated by the linac to determine the neutron flux on the function of depth. This value will be used to estimate the additional dose to the patient while undergoing treatment using the linac operating above 10 MV. By using a gamma spectrometer analysis of the activated indium foil, flux values increase by adding depth of up to 7 cm below the surface with a value of 2.6 x 106 ncm-2s-1 and it would be decrease by increasing depth. This pattern occurs because the neutron thermalization process. By using the method of thermal neutron dose conversion factor, additional dose for maximum neutron flux that received by patients was 0.86 mSv/min. This dose contribution is relatively small, it is only 0.1 % of the therapeutic dose.
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