Numerical model of thyroid counter

Szuchta, Maciej; Ośko, Jakub

doi:10.1515/nuka-2016-0010

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop a numerical model of spectrometric thyroid counter, which is used for the measurements of internal contamination by in vivo method. The modeled detector is used for a routine internal exposure monitoring procedure in the Radiation Protection Measurements Laboratory of National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ). This procedure may also be used for monitoring of occupationally exposed nuclear medicine personnel. The developed model was prepared using Monte Carlo code FLUKA 2011 ver. 2b.6 Apr-14 and FLAIR ver. 1.2-5 interface. It contains a scintillation NaI(Tl) detector, the collimator and the thyroid water phantom with a reference source of iodine ¹³¹I. The geometry of the model was designed and a gamma energy spectrum of iodine ¹³¹I deposited in the detector was calculated.

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Numerical model of thyroid counter

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