Purpose: To quantify the DNA damage induced in a clinical megavoltage photon beam at various depths in and out of the field. Methods and Materials: MCNPX was used to simulate 10x10 cm and 20x20 cm 10 MV photon beams from a clinical linear accelerator. Photon and electron spectra were collected in a water phantom at depths of 2.5, 12.5 and 22.5 cm on the central axis and at off-axis points out t...

Modern dual photon energy linear accelerators often come with a few megavoltage electron beams. The megavoltage electron beam has limited range and relative sharp distal falloff in its depth dose curve compared to that of megavoltage photon beam. Its radiation dose is often delivered appositionally to cover the target volume to its distal 90% depth dose (d90), while avoiding the normal--sometim...

background: radiation therapy  uses high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells. photoneutron contamination and induced radioactivity of high energy therapeutic photon beams are considered as the main source of occupational exposure to radiation therapists who works with linear accelerators operating above 10 mv. materials and methods: the gamma dose rates were measured after termination of diff...

Purpose Due to their finite range, electrons are typically ignored when calculating shielding requirements in megavoltage energy linear accelerator vaults. However, the assumption that 16 MeV need not be considered does hold operated at FLASH-RT dose rates (~200× clinical rate), where rate from bremsstrahlung photons is an order of magnitude higher than 18 MV beam for which was designed. We inv...

The Korean Society of Therapeutic Radiology has periodically conducted a national survey on the status of radiation therapy facilities in Korea. This paper summarized survey data on the status of radiation therapy facilities, manpower, megavoltage equipments, patient load, types of procedures performed and characteristics of the patients treated.

in this work we investigate the thermal entanglement between two-level atoms and photons in a nonlinear cavity. we consider intensity-dependent couplings and calculate the negativity, as a measure of atom-photonentanglement. the cavity is assumed to be at a temperature t, so that all number of photons, and at the same time, both atomic states, with definite probabilities, are present. we then d...