Spectral Measurements and Monte Carlo Calculatlons of Scattered Radiation from Therapeutic Radiation Sources
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Radiologica: Therapy, Physics, Biology
- Vol. 14 (3) , 262-272
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02841867509132666
Abstract
Spectral measurements have been made on scattered radiation in a perspex phantom in various depths from a kilocurie 60Co unit and a 6 MeV linear accelerator using a NaI crystal spectrometer. The measurements are compared to Monte Carlo calculations and a good agreement is obtained. The measured total photon distributions make the basis for calculations of absorbed dose and track length distributions in LET and their average values for the different depths and fields.Keywords
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