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A Matlab-based Monte Carlo algorithm for transport of gamma-rays in matter

  • Mohsen Sharifzadeh EMAIL logo , Hosein Afarideh , Hosein Khalafi and Reza Gholipour

Abstract

Transport of gamma photons in many fields such as radiation detection, dosimetry, and treatment planning is used. The transport of 1 MeV and 5 MeV photons in a water phantom was simulated by using the Monte Carlo algorithm in Matlab work space. The result of KERMA calculation showed good agreement with Arqueros and Montesinos [American Journal of Physics 71 (2003), no. 1, 38–45], and MCNP4C. The proposed algorithm has ability to read out from different cross section libraries. As the future work, it also can be extend for the electron and visible photon transport.

MSC: 65C05

We thanks the Radiation Application Research School, because of the fast computers that provided us to run the Monte Carlo algorithms.

Received: 2014-9-17
Accepted: 2015-1-15
Published Online: 2015-2-10
Published in Print: 2015-3-1

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