background: therapeutic and diagnosis properties of radioactive gold nanoparticle (198-aunps) cause them to be suitable for detection and treatment of tumors. objective: electrical and optical properties of peg-198aunps were examined in this paper. polyethylene glycol (peg)-198 aunps can be used for treatment and diagnosis of small intestine tumors. methods: wireless fluorescence capsule endosc...

Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation was applied to investigation of kinetics and mechanism of oxalic acid degradation by direct and heterogeneous catalytic ozonation. La-containing perovskites including LaFeO3, LaNiO3, LaCoO3 and LaMnO3 was studied as catalyst for oxalic acid ozonation. The reaction kinetic mechanisms of each abovementioned catalytic systems has been achieved. The rate constants val...

background: several landmine detection methods, based on nuclear techniques, have been suggested during the recent years. neutron energy moderation, neutron-induced gamma emission, neutron and gamma attenuation, and fast neutron backscattering are nuclear-based methods used for landmine detection. the aim of this study is to use backscattered neutron for landmine detection. materials and method...

In 2001, at the TRIGA reactor of the University of Pavia (Italy), a patient suffering from diffuse liver metastases from an adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid was successfully treated by boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). The procedure involved boron infusion prior to hepatectomy, irradiation of the explanted liver at the thermal column of the reactor, and subsequent reimplantation. A complete re...

Background: Several landmine detection methods, based on nuclear techniques, have been suggested during the recent years. Neutron energy moderation, neutron-induced gamma emission, neutron and gamma attenuation, and fast neutron backscattering are nuclear-based methods used for landmine detection. The aim of this study is to use backscattered neutron for landmine detection. Materials ...

Relative absorbed-dose energy response correction R for different detector materials in water, PMMA and polystyrene phantoms are calculated using Monte Carlo-based EGSnrc code system for ¹²⁵I and ¹⁶⁹Yb brachytherapy sources. The values of R obtained for ¹²⁵I source are 1.41, 0.92, 3.97, 0.47, 8.32 and 1.10, respectively, for detector materials LiF, Li₂B₄O₇ , A1₂O₃, diamond, silicon diode and ai...

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers are an alternative to MCMC for Bayesian computation. However, their performance depends strongly on the Markov kernels used rejuvenate particles. We discuss how calibrate automatically (using current particles) Hamiltonian within SMC. To do so, we build upon adaptive SMC approach of Fearnhead and Taylor (2013), also suggest methods. illustrate advantages us...

introduction: in recent decades, several monte carlo codes have been introduced for research and medical applications. these methods provide both accurate and detailed calculation of particle transport from linear accelerators. the main drawback of monte carlo techniques is the extremely long computing time that is required in order to obtain a dose distribution with good statistical accuracy. ...

medical linear accelerators are one of the most widespread methods for cancer treatment. despite their advantages, unwanted photoneutrons are produced by high energy linacs. this photoneutrons are as undesired doses to patients and a significant problem for radiation protection of the staffs and patients. photoneutrons radiological risk must be evaluated because of their high let and range.in o...

this paper proposes a hybrid method to find cumulative distribution function (cdf) of completion time of gert-type networks (gtn) which have no loop and have only exclusive-or nodes. proposed method is cre-ated by combining an analytical transformation with gaussian quadrature formula. also the combined crude monte carlo simulation and combined conditional monte carlo simulation are developed a...