NDLI: Pulse and energy pulse height tally comparison in breast dosimetry with Monte Carlo radiation transport codes: MCNP5 and PENEASY(2005)

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Author	Ramos, M. Ferrer, S. Verdu, F.G.
Copyright Year	2005
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Chem. & Nucl. Eng., Polytechnic Univ. of valencia (Ramos, M.; Ferrer, S.; Verdu, F.G.)
Abstract	The authors present a review of tallying processes with non-Boltzmann tallies under Monte Carlo simulations. A comparison between different pulse and energy pulse height tallies has been done with MCNP5 code and PENEASY, a user-friendly version of PENELOPE code. Several simulations have been done for estimating the pulse and energy deposited spectra in a polymethyl-methacrilate (PMMA) phantom used during quality control testing in digital mammography. In the case of MCNP5, the arbitrary energy-loss which is activated by default for particles just crossing the detector has been removed for comparing the efficiency of the tally. PENEASY works similarly, counting all scores which have or have not deposited energy in the phantom. A correction has been done to the code to remove this scoring. As derived from the results, the deposited energy has been estimated as 3.73369e-3 MEv/particle for MCNP5 and 3.25468e-3 MeV/particle for PENASY. Further studies are necessary to obtain more accurate results modeling the compression plate and the imaging system. Pulse and energy which pulse height spectra are still tallies under development and all effort must be done to understand the tallying process under different applications
Starting Page	2950
Ending Page	2953
File Size	196089
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780387414
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617092
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-01-17
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Breast Dosimetry Monte Carlo methods Detectors Electrons Libraries Imaging phantoms Quality control Mammography Physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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