Neutron contamination of Varian Clinac iX 10 MV photon beam using Monte Carlo simulation

• Main Authors: Yani, S., Tursinah, R., Rhani, M. F., Soh, Roger Cai Xiang, Haryanto, F., Arif, I.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Monte Carlo Simulation; Neutron Contamination; DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89800; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47152
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

High energy medical accelerators are commonly used in radiotherapy to increase the effectiveness of treatments. As we know neutrons can be emitted from a medical accelerator if there is an incident of X-ray that hits any of its materials. This issue becomes a point of view of many researchers. The n...