Evaluation of TG-43U1 in miniature X-ray tubes used in electronic brachytherapy through Monte Carlo simulation

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1 Department of Radiology technology, Shushtar School of Medical Sciences, Shushtar, Iran

2 Department of occupational health, Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran

3 Professor of Medical Physics.Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University, Ahvaz, Iran.

4 Associate Professor of Medical Physics,Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University, Ahvaz, Iran.

5 Assistant Professor of Radiology Technology.Department of Radiology technology, Shoushtar School of Medical Sciences, Shoushtar, Iran.

6 Masters Student of Medical Physics.Department of Medical Physics, Sadoughi University of Medical Physics, Yazd, Iran.

Abstract

Abstract
Background and purpose: The first formulation of AAPMTG-43 was presented for the sources with apparent activities in 1995. in 2004, the converted formulation was used to calculate the dose of Nucleoid brachytherapy sources. Subsequently, the formulation for miniature x-ray tubes called TG-43U1 protocol was exploited along with two requirements: normalizing the air-kerma strength and the active length of miniature x-ray tubes limiting to zero. On the basis of the geological structure of miniature x-ray tubes and the capabilities of the monte carlo code, it has been required that TG-43U1 protocol for miniature x-ray tubes is evaluated using this code.
method: the quantities sk ، Λ ، g(r) and F (r, θ) for energies 40, 45, and 50 kilo electron volt are evaluated through simulation of hemispherical and hemispherical-conical tubes and MCNPX (2.6.0) code.
Findings: after running the monte carlo code, the numerical values of air-kerma strength, Dose rate constant, Radial dose function and anisotropy dose function are presented in the form of tables and figures.
Conclusion: a nice agreement is reached among the results of hemispherical miniature x-ray tubes and the applicable tubes in AXXent system along with hemispherical-conical miniature x-ray tubes and the one used in Intrabeam system with application of TG-43U1 protocol.

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Jundishapur Scientific Medical Journal
Volume 19, Issue 5 - Serial Number 128
November and December 2020
Pages 483-499

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  • Receive Date: 30 May 2020
  • Revise Date: 25 August 2020
  • Accept Date: 31 August 2020

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