The Dragonfly mission to Titan is proposed use a radioisotope thermoelectric generator supply electrical and thermal power the spacecraft during flight once it arrives at its destination. As no continuously powered by an RTG has been flown down through Titan's atmosphere before, effects of such generator's radiation field on surrounding environment are unknown. MCNP (Monte Carlo N-Particle) sim...

background: a boron neutron capture therapy (bnct) facility, based on a dt neutron generator, with the final goal to find out a potential, alternative, solution to existing bnct treatment facilities which are based on nuclear reactors is examined. materials and methods: with the aim of the mcnp4b monte carlo code different beam-shaping assembly (bsa) configurations were considered. lead was sel...

background: the purpose of this project was to derive the brachytherapy dosimetric functions described by american association of physicists in medicine (aapm) tg-43 u1 based on high dose rate 192i sources. materials and methods: the method utilized included both simulation of the designed polymethyl methacrylate (pmma) phantom using the monte carlo of mcnp4c and benchmarking of the simulation ...

background: the aim of this work was to establish how well gel dosimeters performed, as substitutes for brain tissue compared with standard phantom materials such as water, polymethyl-methacrylate (or pmma), a150 plastic and te- liquid phantom material for dosimetry of neutron beams in boron neutron capture therapy. materials and methods: thermal neutron fluence, photon dose and epithermal neut...

The effect of substitution Pb2O3 by CuO content was studied for 75% Li2B4O7 + (25 − x)Pb2O3 xCuO glass system where x = 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 wt%. mechanical radiation shielding properties were evaluated the investigated samples. included Young's, shear, bulk, longitudinal, Poisson ratio, micro-hardness computed theoretically based on packing factor (Vi) dissociation energy (Gi) metal oxides...

in this study, a general theoretical model to foresee and calculate the current-voltagecharacteristics in a plateau zone and the associated efficiency of the neutron detector (sensitivity) is presented. this study is to complete the previous studies in this field. the model also considers electric field distortion resulting from the charge collection effect. the characteristics curve is obtaine...