InterDosi Monte Carlo simulations of photon and electron specific absorbed fractions in a voxel-based crab phantom

InterDosi is a new in-house Monte Carlo code that aims at facilitating the use of the Geant4 toolkit for internal dosimetry using voxel-based phantoms. In the present work the dosimetric capabilities of this code are assessed by calculating self-irradiation specific absorbed fractions (SI-SAFs) in a...

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Published in:Radiation and environmental biophysics 2022-03, Vol.61 (1), p.111-118
Main Authors: EL Bakkali, Jaafar, Caffrey, Emily, Doudouh, Abderrahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biological and Medical Physics
Biophysics
Brachyura
Ecosystems
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection
Electrons
Environmental Physics
Humans
Monitoring/Environmental Analysis
Monte Carlo Method
Original Article
Phantoms, Imaging
Photons
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Radiation Dosage
Radiometry - methods
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Summary:InterDosi is a new in-house Monte Carlo code that aims at facilitating the use of the Geant4 toolkit for internal dosimetry using voxel-based phantoms. In the present work the dosimetric capabilities of this code are assessed by calculating self-irradiation specific absorbed fractions (SI-SAFs) in a voxel-based crab phantom. Recent standard human organ compositions and densities taken from ICRP Publication 110 have been used for material specifications of the four organs of a crab, namely, the heart, hepatopancreas, gills, and gonads, whereas the material assigned to the crab shell has been modeled based on literature values. The SI-SAFs were calculated for mono-energetic photons of energies between 10 and 4000 keV, and for mono-energetic electrons of energies between 100 and 4000 keV. The statistical errors corresponding to the calculated SI-SAFs were all less than 0.01%. The results obtained demonstrate that the simulated masses and volumes of the crab organs are in good agreement with those presented in the literature. In addition, the dosimetric results show that the calculated SI-SAFs are generally consistent with those reported in the literature, with some moderate differences due to differences in material specification. It is concluded that the InterDosi code can be successfully employed in internal dose estimations in small organisms, and it is suggested that material specifications specifically relating to crab tissues should be developed to provide more precise SI-SAFs.
ISSN:0301-634X
1432-2099
DOI:10.1007/s00411-021-00950-6