Title:	Monte Carlo simulations for low doses of neutrons
DNr:	SNIC 2014/1-130
Project Type:	SNIC Medium Compute
Principal Investigator:	Monika Puchalska <puzji77@gmail.com>
Affiliation:	Chalmers tekniska högskola
Duration:	2014-04-29 – 2015-05-01
Classification:	10399
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Abstract

The project will investigate risk of cancer from exposure to low doses of neutrons. The project will combine the disciplines of radiation physics, radiobiology, and epidemiology to develop a risk model that will be tested in a prospective study on the incidence of second cancers following exposure to scattered neutrons following pediatric proton therapy. The final project results are likely to make a major contribution to our understanding of the risks from low-dose exposure to neutrons, and how the risk vary with neutron energy and dose. The work within this project includes many tasks. The ones we are involved in concern: Characterization of the experimental radiation beams and determination of full radiation field at the point of interest; Measurement and modelling of neutron fluence and energy spectra out of the treatment field in proton therapy beams. Modelling will be performed using a MC code PHITS.