Shielding Calculation for the Proton Therapy Center in Prague, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21340%2F12%3A00200182" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21340/12:00200182 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2012029" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2012029</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2012029" target="_blank" >10.1051/radiopro/2012029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Shielding Calculation for the Proton Therapy Center in Prague, Czech Republic

Original language description

The study of radiation fields around the cyclotron room was carried out for the Proton-Therapy-Center in Prague (Czech Republic). The 230 MeV proton cyclotron will be installed there as well as additional components located along the beampath. The ambient doses were computed by taking into account 3 major sources of secondary radiation (neutron and photon) - the cyclotron, energy degrader and its collimator. The fluxes of neutrons/photons produced by protons were computed using Monte Carlo code MCNPX 2.5.0. Energy and angular distributions were computed for various targets and proton beam energies. Different physical models of high-energy proton interactions were studied as well. The annual charge at the cyclotron exit was based on the "patient model"(distribution of treatment type) established for a similar therapy center in Essen (Germany). Calculated data were used as an approximation of the radiation field of the most significant sources of radiation (graphite degrader, tantalum c

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

BG - Nuclear, atomic and molecular physics, accelerators

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Radioprotection

ISSN

0033-8451

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

583-597

UT code for WoS article

000314374400008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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