| NUKLEONIKA 2009, 54(3):181-187
DETERMINATION OF DOSIMETRY PARAMETERS OF ADVANTAGETM
103Pd BRACHYTHERAPY SEED USING MCNP4C COMPUTER CODE
Vahideh Ataeinia1, Gholamreza Raisali2, Mahdi Sadeghi3
1 Nuclear Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Science and Research Unit,
Islamic Azad University
2 Radiation Applications Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute,
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, P. O. Box 11365/3486, Tehran, Iran
3 Agricultural, Medical and Industrial Research School,
Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute,
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, P. O. Box 31485/498, Karaj, Iran
The IsoAid LLC Inc. has been introduced ADVANTAGETM 103Pd brachytherapy seed in 2006. The aim of this work is to determine the dosimetric characteristics of this seed according to AAPM’s recommendation in
TG43-U1 using MCNP4C computer code. The dose rate constant has been determined to be 0.694±0.001 cGy h-1 U-1. The radial dose function has been calculated at distances from 0.25 to 7 cm. Two-dimensional anisotropy function have been calculated at distances from 0.25 to 7 cm and at angles from 0 to 90° at 10° increments. The one-dimensional anisotropy function and anisotropy constant have been also calculated. The anisotropy constant in water has been calculated as 0.872±0.001. The results of this investigation are compared with the results of Meigooni et al. obtained by PTRAN code in 2006 and Sowards results obtained by PTRAN code in 2007. The comparison of the dose rate constant and the one-dimensional anisotropy function obtained from the two codes shows good agreement; also the radial dose function at distances lower than 3 cm and the two-dimensional anisotropy function at angles greater than 20° are in good agreement. But, for the calculated radial dose function at distances beyond 3 cm, we observed differences between our values and Meigooni et al. and Sowards results. Also, differences between the calculated two-dimensional anisotropy function using the two codes for angles smaller than 20° are considerable. The differences between the results of MCNP4C and PTRAN codes could be related to the different cross-section data libraries used in these two codes.
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